Silver nanoparticles and polymeric medical devices: a new approach to prevention of infection?

By F. Furno, Kelly S. Morley, Ben Wong, B. Sharp, P. Arnold, S. Howdle, R. Bayston, P. Brown, P. Winship, H. J. Reid. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2004

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Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics, Spectroscopy

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Antimicrobial activities of silver dressings: an in vitro comparison. (2006, background): “The new technology of impregnation of silver nanoparticles (Furno et al., 2004) is enabling a wider range of these medical products to be available to clinicians.”
Durable antibacterial Ag/polyacrylonitrile (Ag/PAN) hybrid nanofibers prepared by atmospheric plasma treatment and electrospinning (2011, background): “Polymer matrices loaded with silver nanoparticles have been used in numerous applications including wound dressings [13], tissue scaffolds [14], chemical and biological protective materials [15], and medical devices and biotextiles [16,17].”
Application of Nanoparticles in Waste Water Treatment (2008, background): “Silver (Ag) nanoparticles, nanodots or nanopowder are spherical or flake high surface area metal particles having high antibacterial activity [50, 51] are used in wound.”
Introduction to metallic nanoparticles (2010, background): “The results obtained were mixed but the methodology allows for the first-time silver impregnation (as opposed to coating) of medical polymers and promises to lead to an antimicrobial biomaterial.[88]”
Antibacterial activity of ZnO nanoparticle suspensions on a broad spectrum of microorganisms. (2008, background): “…other metal oxide nanoparticles, including MgO and CuO, have been reported with other bacteria, for example E. coli (Kuhn et al., 2003; Sawai, 2003; Furno et al., 2004; Rincon & Pulgarin, 2004; Cioffi et al., 2005; Thill et al., 2006), no significant growth inhibition was detected with the used…”
Antimicrobial effects of silver nanoparticles. (2007, background): “It is well known that Ag ions and Ag-based compounds have strong antimicrobial effects [12], and many investigators are interested in using other inorganic nanoparticles as antibacterial agents [4,12-14].”
Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using olive leaf extract and its antibacterial activity (2014, background): “Silver ions as well as Ag Nps were known to have strong antimicrobial activities (Furno et al., 2004).”