Abstract
Zinc oxide nanorods have been prepared, to our knowledge, for the first time using the green chemistry route. The used growth solution was a mixture of Artemisia flowers extract zinc precursor salt. Nanorods have been grown on glass substrate preliminary coated with ZnO thin film prepared by sputtering, used as a seed layer. The synthesized nanostructures have been characterized by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The XRD analysis reveals that the nanorods are formed with hexagonal wurtzite structure with (002) preferential orientation. An interesting feature was observed is that the nanorods adopt the seed layer crystallographic orientation.