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SUBMITTER: Huda S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2884101 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huda Sabil S Smoukov Stoyan K SK Nakanishi Hideyuki H Kowalczyk Bartlomiej B Bishop Kyle K Grzybowski Bartosz A BA
ACS applied materials & interfaces 20100401 4
Cooperative electrostatic adsorption (CELA) is used to deposit monolayer coatings of silver nanoparticles on relatively chemically inert polymers, polypropylene, and Tygon. Medically relevant components (tubing, vials, syringes) coated by this method exhibit antibacterial properties over weeks to months with the coatings being stable under constant-flow conditions. Antibacterial properties of the coatings are due to a slow release of Ag(+) from the particles. The rate of this release is quantifi ...[more]