Controlling the Antimicrobial Action of Surface Modified Magnesium Hydroxide Nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: Magnesium hydroxide nanoparticles (Mg(OH)₂NPs) have recently attracted significant attention due to their wide applications as environmentally friendly antimicrobial nanomaterials, with potentially low toxicity and low fabrication cost. Here, we describe the synthesis and characterisation of a range of surface modified Mg(OH)₂NPs, including particle size distribution, crystallite size, zeta potential, isoelectric point, X-ray diffraction (XRD), dynamic light scattering (DLS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We explored the antimicrobial activity of the modified Mg(OH)₂NPs on the microalgae

SUBMITTER: Halbus AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6631741 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature