The synthesis of silver-doped zinc oxide (Ag:ZnO) nanocomposite material was achieved using a simple chemical coprecipitation method, in which 0.2？M zinc chloride and 0.001？M silver nitrate coprecipitated with 25% ammonia solution by pulse mode dispersion using ultrasonicator. The obtained silvery white precipitate was dried overnight at 110°C in hot air oven, and the powder was collected. The resulted Ag:ZnO nanocomposite was structurally and optically characterized using various techniques. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern clearly showed the presence of crystalline Ag:ZnO particles. Further, UV-Vis spectrophotometer and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) results showed the presence of Ag:ZnO nanocomposite at specific wavelengths. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis confirm that the synthesized Ag:ZnO nanocomposite material was truncated nanorod in shape and has 48 to 226？nm size in diameter. 1. Introduction Zinc oxide (ZnO) is an important industrial material, because it has an inorganic and semiconducting material with inherent properties that share its structure as wurtzite [1]. ZnO nanocomposite has attracted interest because of its optical properties. These particles are transparent to visible light, but they absorb UV-light. ZnO has attracted intensive research effort for its unique properties and versatile applications in transparent electronics, chemical sensors, and spin electronics [2–8]. A variety of metal oxides like zinc oxide, titanium dioxide (TiO2), and silicon dioxide (SiO2) and different techniques such as chemical coprecipitation [9, 10], sol-gel process [11, 12] chemical vapour deposition [13], thermal decomposition [14, 15], hydrothermal synthesis [16, 17], solid-state reaction [18], spray pyrolysis [19], vapour-liquid-solid method [20], and microemulsion precipitation [21–23] have been used so far. Hingorani et al. also reported the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) and it was the first study using reverse microemulsion in the early 1990s [24, 25]. Synthesis process of Ag:ZnO nanocomposite plays a key role in governing size, morphology, and its properties of nanocomposite through dispersion method (pulse mode), using ultrasonication [26]. The main objective of synthesis is to produce particles only in nanorod structure for various toxicity and biological application studies. There are different doping agents like P [27], N [28], As [29], Li [30], Sb [31–34], and Ag [35]. Among these, we have taken Ag as doping agent. Because the nature of Ag ions is simple
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