“…A substantiated comparison of the inhibition zone diameter with respect to S. aureus and E. coli bacteria monitored in various doped (single or double) ZnO materials is shown in Table 3. From the table, it can be seen that Cd, Ba co‐doped ZnO nanorods prepared show enhanced antibacterial activity as observed in the current study when compared to Cd, Ba co‐doped CuO, 28 Fe, Co co‐doped ZnO, 26 Mn doped ZnO, 58 Ag doped ZnO, 58 Cu doped ZnO, 17 Sn doped ZnO, 17 Ti doped ZnO, 24 Cd doped CuO, 28 Ti doped MgO, 60 and Ba doped CeO 2 51 nanoparticles. The impressive antibacterial activity of Cd, Ba co‐doped ZnO nanoparticles is because of the low crystallite size (42.35 nm), decrease in lattice strain, and increase in dislocation density, as evidenced from the XRD data.…”