Ni Nanocrystals Supported on Graphene Oxide: Antibacterial Agents for Synergistic Treatment of Bacterial Infections.

ABSTRACT: The effects of antibiotics on bacterial infections are gradually weakened, leading to the wide development of nanoparticle-based antibacterial agents with unique physical and chemical properties and antibacterial mechanisms different from antibiotics. In this study, we fabricated the uniform and stable graphene oxide (GO)/Ni colloidal nanocrystal cluster (NCNC) nanocomposite by electrostatic self-assembly and investigated its synergistic antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Escherichia coli (E. coli) in vitro. The GO/NCNC nanocomposite was shown to possess higher inhibition efficiency than a pure NCNC or GO suspension, with 99.5 and 100% inhibition against S. aureus and E. coli at a 125 μg/mL concentration, respectiv

SUBMITTER: Du T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9178720 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature