Hydrogel networks as nanoreactors: A novel approach to silver nanoparticles for antibacterial applications

By Y. M. Mohan, Kyungjae Lee, T. Premkumar, K. Geckeler. 2007

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Molecular Medicine

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In Biomaterials

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Citations in the corpus

• Detection limits of DLS and UV-Vis spectroscopy in characterization of polydisperse nanoparticles colloids (2013, background): “Ag NPs are environmentally friendly antibacterial materials and therefore are used in many cosmetic products and medical applications such as hydrogel dressings [11].”
• Antimicrobial Polymers with Metal Nanoparticles (2015, background): “uniformly distributed silver nanoparticles [53].”
• Antimicrobial chitosan–PVA hydrogel as a nanoreactor and immobilizing matrix for silver nanoparticles (2012, background): “In their swollen stage, hydrogels offer large free space within the crosslinked network that can act as a nanoreactor and thus facilitate synthesis of nanoparticles by providing sufficient space for nucleation and growth of nanoparticles (Wang et al. 2004; Mohan et al. 2006, 2007).”
• Nanocomposite polymer hydrogels (2009, background): “c Inclusion of metal nanoparticles (i.e., Ag, Au) dispersed within polymer hydrogels can improve electrical conductance and anti-microbial properties [23, 47 ].”