Antimicrobial activity of metal-containing nanoparticles is not restricted to pathogenic bacteriaBerkeley Electronic Press Selected WorksP. GajjarJoan E. McLeanD. W. BrittC. DimkpaA. J. AndersonW. HuangW. P. Johnson
Magnesium oxide nanoparticle (nMgO) is a light metal based antimicrobial nanoparticle that can be metabolized and fully resorbed in the body. To take advantage of the antimicrobial properties of nMgO for medical use, it is necessary to determine the minimal inhibitory, bactericidal and fungicidal co...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN received: 19 November 2014 accepted: 13 May 2015 Published: 05 June 2015 Enhancing the antimicrobial activity of natural extraction using the synthetic ultrasmall metal nanoparticles Huanhuan Li, Quansheng Chen, Jiewen Zhao & Khulal Urmila The use of ...
have found that when the size of metal nanoparticles decreases to subnanometer dimensions, these ultrasmall metal nanoclusters (NCs) begin to possess many unique properties, such as HOMO−LUMO transition, molecular magnetism, strong luminescence and especially its broad-spectrum antibacterial activity. Th...
The large surface area due to small size contributes to the increased antimicrobial activity of different nanostructures. Metal nanoparticles have been used as antimicrobial agents since times immemorial. In this review, metal, metal oxide and polymer based nanomaterials have been studied in order to ...
NanoparticlesAnnellationCuONiOZnO and Antimicrobial activityMetal oxide nanoparticles of copper, nickel and zinc were prepared by the sol-gel method. Three different variants of each metal oxide nanoparticles were obtaindoi:10.2139/ssrn.3542335Budde, Kumaraswamy...
Antimicrobial activity of metal nanoparticles can be attributed to the small particle size of the metal ions and their high specific surface area. In addition to the direct antimicrobial activity of the metal nanoparticles, their large specific surface area enables a large increase in the ...
Sol–gel methods can be used to producing durable Cu containing glasses but these have not been investigated for their antimicrobial properties (Perez-Robleset al.,1999; Tohidiet al.,2010). Coatings with antimicrobial activity containing Cu nanoparticles have been prepared by surface coating with a...
the enhanced production of ROS because of the interaction potential at the interface is the principal cause for antimicrobial propensity of the NPs. As a conclusion, the interaction pattern at the nano-bio interface plays vital role in determining the antimicrobial activity of metal oxide nanoparticle...
Silver nanoparticles were obtained in the cellulose matrix with an average size of 140 nm and with antimicrobial activity against both sensitive and resistant Gram positive (using 1500 ppm) as well as sensitive and resistant Gram negative (using 125 ppm) bacteria. Also, an inverted disk-...