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Metal Nanoparticles for Improving Bactericide Functionality of Usual Fibers.

ABSTRACT: A wide variety of microbiological hazards stimulates a constant development of new protective materials against them. For that, the application of some nanomaterials seems to be very promising. Modification of usual fibers with different metal nanoparticles was successfully illustrated in the work. Tantal nanoparticles have shown the highest antibacterial potency within fibrous materials against both gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli) bacteria. Besides, the effect of tantal nanoparticles towards luminescent Photobacterium phosphoreum cells estimating the general sample ecotoxicity was issued for the first time.

SUBMITTER: Frolov G

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7557869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Metal Nanoparticles for Improving Bactericide Functionality of Usual Fibers.

Frolov George G Lyagin Ilya I Senko Olga O Stepanov Nikolay N Pogorelsky Ivan I Efremenko Elena E

Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20200831 9

A wide variety of microbiological hazards stimulates a constant development of new protective materials against them. For that, the application of some nanomaterials seems to be very promising. Modification of usual fibers with different metal nanoparticles was successfully illustrated in the work. Tantal nanoparticles have shown the highest antibacterial potency within fibrous materials against both gram-positive (Bacillus subtilis) and gram-negative (Escherichia coli) bacteria. B ...[more]

PMID: 32878095

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