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JOURNAL OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 2305-2311Publisher
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jnn.2017.13042
Keywords
Nano-Silver; Nanoparticles; SiO2 Nanospheres; Antibacterial Activity
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [11574190]
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At normal atmospheric temperature, the modified sol-gel method was employed to synthesize SiO2 nanospheres (SiO2 NSs) whose average size was about 352 nm. Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were uniformly distributed on the surface of SiO2 nanospheres (SiO2 NSs) by applying chemical reduction method at 95 degrees C and the size of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) could be controlled by simply tuning the reaction time and the concentration of sodium citrate. Besides, the size, morphology, structure and optical absorption properties of SiO2@Ag composite nanoparticles were measured and characterized by laser particle size analyzer (LPSA), transmission electron microscope (TEM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and ultraviolet visible absorption spectrometer (UV-Vis), respectively. Furthermore, antimicrobial effect experiments that against gram-negative bacteria (E. coli) and gram-positive bacteria (S. aureus) were carried out to characterize the antibacterial activity of synthesized SiO2@Ag composite nanoparticles. The results show that the prepared SiO2@Ag composite nanoparticles have strong antimicrobial activity, which is associated with the size of silver nanoparticles.
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