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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 49, Issue 27, Pages 9274-9281Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0dt01816c
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21873113]
- Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province [SWYY-243]
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Ag and CuO in the form of nanoparticles have been widely used in our daily life as antibacterial agents, through releasing Ag ions and generating reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this work, we demonstrate that by synthesizing Ag@CuO nanohybrids with core-shell configurations, their bactericidal activity can be synergistically enhanced compared to the respective constituents. Upon AM 1.5G light illumination for short durations, the measured minimum inhibitory concentrations of the Ag@CuO nanohybrids show a significant decrease against both Gram-negativeEscherichia coliand Gram-positiveStaphylococcus aureusbacterial strains, requiring only 7% and 34% of those when conducted in the dark. The spread plate results demonstrate that with nanohybrid concentrations of 11.0 and 21.9 mg L-1, at least 7 orders of magnitude decrease in Escherichia coliandStaphylococcus aureuscolony forming units is achieved, when the Ag@CuO nanohybrids are exposed to light illumination for 10 min. The effect of illumination is found to induce Ag(+)release and enhance(1)O(2)generation, which act concertedly to facilitate the remarkable photo-enhanced bactericidal effect.
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