Water-Based Scalable Methods for Self-Cleaning Antibacterial ZnO-Nanostructured Surfaces.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial colonization poses significant health risks, such as infestation of surfaces in biomedical applications and clean water unavailability. If maintaining the surrounding water clean is a target, developing surfaces with strong bactericidal action, which is facilitated by bacterial access to the surface and mixing, can be a solution. On the other hand, if sustenance of a surface free of bacteria is the goal, developing surfaces with ultralow bacterial adhesion often suffices. Here we report a facile, scalable, and environmentally benign strategy that delivers customized surfaces for these challenges. For bactericidal action, nanostructures of inherently antibacterial ZnO, through simple immersion of zinc in hot water, are fabricated. The resulting nanostructured surface exhibits extr

SUBMITTER: Milionis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7434054 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature