Investigation of the room-temperature solid-state reactions leading to ZnS nanotubes and the third-order nonlinear optical properties of the nanotubes obtained.

The room-temperature solid-state reactions occurring in the preparation of nanotubes of zinc sulfide are further investigated by x-ray powder diffractometry (XRD) and infra-red (IR) spectrometry measurements, and the nanotube ZnS product obtained is measured by Z-scan technology to investigate the third-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. The XRD result suggests that the reactions leading to the formation of the nanotubules have occurred through reaction-controlled to growth-controlled procedures, and the IR result indicates that the procedures involve a coordination effect of the additive DABCO as ligand on the reactant. The result of NLO measurements shows that the nanotube ZnS products obtained have the behaviours of the third-order nonlinear optical properties of both NLO absorption and NLO refraction with self-focusing effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]