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ADVANCES IN APPLIED CERAMICS
Volume 110, Issue 6, Pages 353-359Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1179/1743676111Y.0000000023
Keywords
Antibacterial; Cytotoxicity; Nanoalumina; Nanosilver; Nanoparticles; Nanopowder
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- European Social Funds and the National Budget
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education [N N507 469538]
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The present paper describes an in vitro assessment of the antibacterial properties and cytotoxic activity on mammalian cells of silver nanoparticles incorporated into an aluminium nano-oxide substrate produced by the thermal decomposition-reduction method. The Al2O3-Ag nanopowders show good bactericidal and fungicidal properties. An Al2O3-Ag (12.55 wt-%) specimen at the concentration of 50 mg mL(-1) reduced considerably the populations of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis species, whereas the same nanopowder in a concentration of 90 mg mL(-1) inhibited significantly the growth of P. aeruginosa, E. coli, S. aureus and Candida albicans and also significantly limited the number of B. subtilis. The Al2O3-Ag nanoparticles also showed no cytotoxic effects on the three selected cell lines, i.e. L929, BJ and HeLa, and the cells remained >75% viability, as measured by MTT assay, and >102% viability, obtained by EZ4U assay, relative to control at concentration as high as 200 mu g mL(-1).
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