Antimicrobial Properties of Graphene Oxide Nanosheets: Why Size Matters

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 7226-7236

  Perreault, François ^a   De Faria, Andreia Fonseca ^a   Nejati, Siamak ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

antimicrobial surfaces; bacterial toxicity; glutathione; graphene oxide; oxidative damage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; COATINGS; CYTOLOGY; DEFECT DENSITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAPHENE;

ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES; ANTIMICROBIAL SURFACE; ANTIMICROBIAL SURFACE COATINGS; GLUTATHIONES; GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOSHEETS; GRAPHENE OXIDES; OXIDATIVE DAMAGE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

MICROORGANISMS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GRAPHITE; NANOMATERIAL;

CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAPHITE; NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84938125654     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b02067     Document Type: Article

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