The kinetics of thermal instability in nanocrystalline silver and the effect of heat treatment on the antibacterial activity of nanocrystalline silver dressings

Biomaterials

Volumn 30, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 6929-6939

  Landry, Breanne K ^a   Nadworny, Patricia L ^a   Omotoso, Oladipo E ^b   Maham, Yadollah ^a   Burrell, Jessica C ^a   Burrell, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Crystal growth; DSC (differential scanning calorimetry); Nanoparticle; Silver; Wound dressing

Indexed keywords

ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOSTATIC; DSC (DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY); FINE FEATURE; GRAIN GROWTH EXPONENT; GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; HEAT FLOWS; ISOTHERMAL HEAT TREATMENTS; LOG REDUCTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; NANO SILVER; NANOCRYSTALLINE SILVER; NORMAL GRAIN GROWTH; OXYGEN BONDS; THERMAL INSTABILITIES; WOUND DRESSING;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; CALORIMETERS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLITE SIZE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TREATMENT; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; OXYGEN; SCANNING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILVER; SOLID SOLUTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAIN GROWTH;

NANOCRYSTAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOSTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; HEAT TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY; WOUND DRESSING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANDAGES; CALORIMETRY; HOT TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS TESTING; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARTICLE SIZE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SILVER; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 70350182227     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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