Antibacterial effects of carbon nanotubes: size does matter!

By Seoktae Kang, M. Herzberg, D. Rodrigues, Menachem Elimelech. Langmuir, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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A Review of Removal of Pollutants from Water/Wastewater Using Different Types of Nanomaterials (2014, background): “Researchers have attributed the antimicrobial effects of CNTs to their unique physical, cytotoxic, and surface functionalizing properties [229], their fibrous shape [230, 231], the size and length of the tubes, and number of layers (single- or multiwalled) [155, 232].”
Oxidative stress-mediated antibacterial activity of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2012, background): “In addition, other research groups have investigated the application of nanoscale reduced GO–quantum dot nanocomposites in magnetically targeted drug delivery, photothermal therapy, and fluorescence, photoacoustic, and magnetic resonance imaging.20–22 Several reports on graphene-related materials ar”
Antimicrobial nanomaterials for water disinfection and microbial control: potential applications and implications. (2008, background): “…studies available credited SWNTs with antimicrobial activity towards Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, and the damages inflicted were attributed to either a physical interaction or oxida- tive stress that compromise cell membrane integrity (Kang et al., 2007, 2008; Narayan et al., 2005).”
Studies on toxicity of multi-walled carbon nanotubes on suspension rice cells (2009, background): “Many studies have assessed the results of CNT exposure in animal and human cell lines and the toxicity in cells, bacteria, and organisms [2-7], but the exact toxic mechanism of CNTs in humans and animals is still unclear.”
Antibacterial activity of graphite, graphite oxide, graphene oxide, and reduced graphene oxide: membrane and oxidative stress. (2011, background): “18 CNTs may chemically increase cellular oxidative stress, which could disrupt a specific microbial process.(13,14) If gra-”