Exploring the potential of metal and metal oxide nanomaterials for sustainable water and wastewater treatment: a review of their antimicrobial properties

H Kamyab, S Chelliapan, G Hayder, M Yusuf… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Metallic nanoparticles (NPs) are of particular interest as antimicrobial agents in water and
wastewater treatment due to their broad suppressive range against bacteria, viruses, and …

Antimicrobial metal-based nanoparticles: A review on their synthesis, types and antimicrobial action

MG Correa, FB Martínez, CP Vidal… - Beilstein journal of …, 2020 - beilstein-journals.org
The investigation of novel nanoparticles with antimicrobial activity has grown in recent years
due to the increased incidence of nosocomial infections occurring during hospitalization and …

Harmonizing nature and nanotechnology: Phytoextract-mediated synthesis of Ag-doped ZnO nanoparticles using Lavandula stoechas extract for environmental and …

Z Kiani, S Mirjalili, K Heydaryan… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles, owing to their distinctive physical and chemical attributes, play pivotal roles in
advancing nanomedicine and environmental technologies, particularly in the development …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial activity of zinc oxide nanoparticles loaded with essential oils

L Motelica, BS Vasile, A Ficai, AV Surdu, D Ficai… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
One major problem with the overuse of antibiotics is that the microorganisms acquire
resistance; thus the dose must be increased unsustainably. To overcome this problem …

[HTML][HTML] Ag nanoparticles for biomedical applications—Synthesis and characterization—A review

A Nicolae-Maranciuc, D Chicea, LM Chicea - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Silver nanoparticles have been intensively studied over a long period of time because they
exhibit antibacterial properties in infection treatments, wound healing, or drug delivery …

Antimicrobial packaging for plum tomatoes based on ZnO modified low-density polyethylene

L Motelica, D Ficai, OC Oprea, RD Trusca… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Food safety and quality are major concerns in the food industry. Despite numerous studies,
polyethylene remains one of the most used materials for packaging due to industry …

Construction of atom co-sharing Bi/Bi4O5Br2 nanosheet heterojunction for plasmonic-enhanced visible-light-driven photocatalytic antibacterial activity

G Zhang, J Pan, X Dong, X Li, Z Song, Y Liu… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid advancement of photodynamic therapy (PDT) antibacterial materials has led to
promising alternatives to antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. However, antibacterial …

Novel ZnO-biochar nanocomposites obtained by hydrothermal method in extracts of Ulva lactuca collected from Black Sea

A Dumbrava, C Matei, A Diacon, F Moscalu… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The aqueous extract of Ulva lactuca, obtained from algae waste, has been used both as
precursor for nanobiochar and source of phycocolloids, for obtaining of ZnO@ C composites …

Influence of Ag size and shape in dye photodegradation using silver nanoparticle/ZnO nanohybrids and polychromatic light

DR Mota, WS Martini, DS Pellosi - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
In this work, we propose zinc oxide (ZnO) surface functionalization with plasmonic silver
nanoparticles (AgNP) of different sizes and shapes (spheres, prisms, and rods) creating …

Antimicrobial bilayer nanocomposites based on the incorporation of as-synthetized hollow zinc oxide nanotubes

C López de Dicastillo, C Patiño Vidal, I Falcó… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
An antimicrobial polymeric bilayer structure based on the application of an acrylic coating
containing hollow zinc oxide nanotubes over a polymeric substrate was developed in this …