Insight into the Mechanism of Antibacterial Activity of ZnO: Surface Defects Mediated Reactive Oxygen Species Even in the Dark

Lakshmi Prasanna, V.; Vijayaraghavan, R.

doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02266

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Insight into the Mechanism of Antibacterial Activity of ZnO: Surface Defects Mediated Reactive Oxygen Species Even in the Dark

Published in Langmuir • Jul 29, 2015

Authors:

V. Lakshmi Prasanna

R. Vijayaraghavan

Abstract

A systematic and complete antibacterial study on well-designed and well-characterized microparticle (micro), nanoparticle (nano), and capped nano ZnO has been carried out in both dark and light conditions with the objective of arriving at the mechanism of the antibacterial activity of ZnO, particula...

Subject

Reactive oxygen species

Mechanism (biology)

Chemistry

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