Does the Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Depend on the Shape of the Nanoparticle? A Study of the Gram-Negative Bacterium Escherichia coli

By Sukdeb Pal, Y. Tak, J. Song. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2007

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry

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Citations in the corpus

• Review on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles: Antibacterial Activity and Toxicity Mechanism (2015, background): “High-atom-density facets with (111) facets exhibit higher antibacterial activity [3].”
• The effect of charge at the surface of silver nanoparticles on antimicrobial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria: a preliminary study (2015, background): “surface area and therefore stronger bactericidal interactions [2, 6].”
• Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles from marigold flower and its synergistic antimicrobial potential (2015, background): “It has been reported that since ancient times silver metal is known to have antimicrobial activities (Pal et al., 2007) and silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are of particular interest due to their peculiar properties and wide applications.”
• Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Azadirachta indica leaf extract and its antimicrobial study (2017, background): “denaturation of protein and cell death (Pal et al. 2007).”
• Size- and Shape-Dependent Antibacterial Studies of Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by Wet Chemical Routes (2016, background): “Thus, smaller particles released more silver ions than larger particles to kill more bacteria [15,41].”
• Environmental behavior and ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles to algae, plants, and fungi (2008, background): “Thus, it may be expected that ROS defense mechanisms based on ascorbate, glutathione, alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), or enzymatic scavengers of activated oxygen such as superoxide dismutase (SODs), peroxidases, and catalases (Asada 1992; Noctor and Foyer 1998), might give protection against ROS-media”