Making the hospital a safer place by sonochemical coating of all its textiles with antibacterial nanoparticles

Ultrasonics Sonochemistry

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 82-88

  Perelshtein, Ilana ^a   Lipovsky, Anat ^a   Perkas, Nina ^a   Tzanov, Tzanko ^c   Arguirova, M ^d   Leseva, M ^d   Gedanken, Aharon ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d Burn and Plastic Surgery Clinic MHATEM   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Antibacterial textiles; Coating ZnO; CuO; Scale up; Sonochemistry

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; COPPER OXIDES; ETHANOL; HOSPITALS; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; SONOCHEMISTRY; ZINC OXIDE; ZNO NANOPARTICLES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBACTERIAL TEXTILES; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTION; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION; SCALE-UP; SONOCHEMICAL COATINGS; SONOCHEMICAL PROCESS;

TEXTILES;

ALCOHOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METAL OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; WATER; ZINC OXIDE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS PROCESS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MATERIAL COATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONOCHEMICAL COATING; TEXTILE; CHEMISTRY; COTTON; MICROBIOLOGY; SAFETY; ULTRASOUND;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COTTON FIBER; HOSPITALS; NANOPARTICLES; SAFETY; TEXTILES; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WATER; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84934278936     PISSN: 13504177     EISSN: 18732828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultsonch.2014.12.012     Document Type: Article

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