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SUBMITTER: Saravanan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7912860 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saravanan Arumugam A Maruthapandi Moorthy M Das Poushali P Luong John H T JHT Gedanken Aharon A
Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) 20210202 2
Carbon dots (CDs) were obtained from medicinal turmeric leaves (<i>Curcuma longa</i>) by a facile one-step hydrothermal method and evaluated for their bactericidal activities against two gram-negative; <i>Escherichia coli</i>, <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>, and two gram-positive counterparts; <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>, <i>S. epidermidis</i>. The CDs exhibited spherical shapes with a mean size of 2.6 nm. The fluorescence spectra of CDs revealed intense fluorescence at λ<sub>ex</sub>/<sub>em</su ...[more]