Chitosan-Based Structural Color Films for Humidity Sensing with Antiviral Effect.

ABSTRACT: This scientific investigation emphasizes the essential integration of nature's influence in crafting multifunctional surfaces with bio-inspired designs for enhanced functionality and environmental advantages. The study introduces an innovative approach, merging color decoration, humidity sensing, and antiviral properties into a unified surface using chitosan, an organo-biological polymer, to create cost-effective multilayered films through sol-gel deposition and UV photoinduced deposition of metal nanoparticles. The resulting chitosan films showcase diverse structural colors and demonstrate significant antiviral efficiency, with a 50% and 85% virus inhibition rate within a rapid 20 min reaction, validated through fluorescence cell expression and real-time qPCR (polymerase chain reaction) a

SUBMITTER: Burak D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10892554 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature