Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 8, Issue 17, Pages 10761-10766Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01765
Keywords
carbon dots; bactericidal functions; light activation; photodynamic effect; E. coli; colloidal TiO2
Funding
- NIH [R15GM114752]
- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Grant, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [2011-68003-30012]
- NSF
- South Carolina Space Grant Consortium
- NIFA [688750, 2011-68003-30012] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Carbon dots, generally defined as small carbon nano particles with various surface passivation schemes, have emerged as a new class of quantum-dot-like nanomaterials, with their optical properties and photocatalytic functions resembling those typically found in conventional nanoscale semiconductors. In this work, carbon dots were evaluated for their photoinduced bactericidal functions, with the results suggesting that the dots were highly effective in bacteria-killing with visible-light illumination. In fact, the inhibition effect could be observed even simply under ambient room lighting conditions. Mechanistic implications of the results are discussed and so are opportunities in the further development of carbon dots into a new class of effective visible/natural light responsible bactericidal agents for a variety of bacteria control applications.
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