Direct synthesis of well dispersed ZnO nanorods without using additional surfactant

Without using additional surfactant as structure-directing agent, well dispersed ZnO nanorods were directly synthesized in the dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and alcohol mixture solution by a one-step wet chemical method. The experiment results demonstrated that alcohol molecular with longer chain is helpful for the growth of ZnO nanorods. The absorption and emission spectra of as-synthesized ZnO nanorods were also presented in this paper.