4.6 Article

Motility Suppression and Trapping Bacteria by ZnO Nanostructures

Journal

CRYSTALS
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cryst12081027

Keywords

ZnO nanowire arrays; bacteria motility; antibacterial; particle tracking

Funding

  1. NSFC [12004308, 12174306, 11804275]
  2. special Scientific Research Program of Shaanxi Provincial Education Department [203010036]

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This study investigates how nanostructures and their local chemical microenvironment dynamically affect the swimming motility of bacteria near surfaces. The results show that ZnO nanowire arrays reduce bacterial motility and ultraviolet irradiation further reduces bacterial locomotion.
Regulating the swimming motility of bacteria near surfaces is essential to suppress or avoid bacterial contamination and infection in catheters and medical devices with wall surfaces. However, the motility of bacteria near walls strongly depends on the combination of the local physicochemical properties of the surfaces. To unravel how nanostructures and their local chemical microenvironment dynamically affect the bacterial motility near surfaces, here, we directly visualize the bacterial swimming and systematically analyze the motility of Escherichia coli swimming on ZnO nanoparticle films and nanowire arrays with further ultraviolet irradiation. The results show that the ZnO nanowire arrays reduce the swimming motility, thus significantly enhancing the trapping ability for motile bacteria. Additionally, thanks to the wide bandgap nature of a ZnO semiconductor, the ultraviolet irradiation rapidly reduces the bacteria locomotion due to the hydroxyl and singlet oxygen produced by the photodynamic effects of ZnO nanowire arrays in an aqueous solution. The findings quantitatively reveal how the combination of geometrical nanostructured surfaces and local tuning of the steric microenvironment are able to regulate the motility of swimming bacteria and suggest the efficient inhibition of bacterial translocation and infection by nanostructured coatings.

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