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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B
Volume 2, Issue 20, Pages 3057-3064Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3tb21734e
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- European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) [214653]
- EPSRC [EP/J001597/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J001597/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Small, carboxymethyl-starch-stabilised zinc oxide nanoparticles with a defined shape, size and morphology were prepared in situ in water at relatively low reaction temperatures using soluble carboxymethyl starch (CMS) as a combined crystallising, stabilising and solubilising agent and triethanolamine as the reducing agent. Aqueous colloidal solutions of these CMS-stabilised ZnO nanoparticles were used to deposit a coating of ZnO nanoparticles on cellulose paper by a wet-chemistry, polyelectrolyte, layer-by-layer approach using water as the only solvent. Such cellulose paper samples, coated with these CMS-stabilised ZnO nanoparticles, show higher brightness and whiteness than that of blank reference paper and are more stable to UV-radiation than the paper reference as well as demonstrating good antibacterial activity against MRSA and A. baumannii.
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