Irradiation of silver and agar/silver nanoparticles with argon, oxygen glow discharge plasma, and mercury lamp

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ahmad, Mahmoud M ^a   Abdel Wahab, Essam A ^a   El Maaref, A A ^a   Rawway, Mohammed ^a   Shaaban, Essam R ^a  

^a AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Antibacterial activity; Glow discharge plasma; Silver nanoparticles; UV light irradiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921059247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-3-443     Document Type: Article

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