@Article{CL.2025.221.11,
AUTHOR = {H. A. Ahmed, M. Y. Ali, S. S. Hamood, A. N. Abd},
TITLE = {The importance of CdS and ZnO-NPs in study anti-microbial activity prepared by laser ablation and simple chemical method},
JOURNAL = {Chalcogenide Letters},
VOLUME = {22},
YEAR = {2025},
NUMBER = {1},
PAGES = {11--22},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CL/v22n1/64891},
ISSN = {1584-8663},
ABSTRACT = {As a potential substitute for antibiotics, cadmium sulfide and zinc oxide nano-particles 
(CdS and ZnO NPs) were created using laser ablation and a straightforward chemical 
process, respectively. Target of cadmium sulfide, deionized water, zinc nitrate, and sodium 
hydroxide were used as precursors. Different characterization techniques were used to 
characterize the CdS and ZnO NPs. X-ray diffraction was used to confirm that the CdS 
and ZnO had polycrystalline structures with average crystalline sizes of 54.16 nm and 
29.23 nm, respectively. The ZnO particles were densely packed 2D curved nanopetals 
with a diameter of 51.65 nm, whereas the CdS particles were shown to consist of particle 
agglomerates with spherical and semi-spherical morphologies with a diameter of 34.53 nm 
from FE-SEM images. According to AFM, the average grain size of ZnO and CdS was 
37.51 nm and 79.64 nm, respectively. The purity of the produced nano-particles was 
validated by FTIR. ZnO has an estimated energy gap of 4.25 eV and CdS of 2.5 eV. 
Regarding Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacterial strains and fungal strains, the CdS 
and ZnO NPs exhibit pertinent anti-microbial sensitivity. Compared to S. epidermidis and 
Klebsiella, the produced nano-particles were shown to have stronger anti-bacterial activity 
against S. aureus and E. coli, with a larger zone of inhibition. The Candida, however, 
recorded a higher value of 39mm. },
DOI = {10.15251/CL.2025.221.11}
}