Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots Covalently Functionalized PVDF Membrane with Significantly-Enhanced Bactericidal and Antibiofouling Performances

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Zeng, Zhiping ^a,b   Yu, Dingshan ^c   He, Ziming ^b   Liu, Jing ^b   Xiao, Fang Xing ^b   Zhang, Yan ^b   Wang, Rong ^a   Bhattacharyya, Dibakar ^d   Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; GRAPHITE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYL DERIVATIVE; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFOULING; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; PARTICLE SIZE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOFOULING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAPHITE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYVINYLS; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84957573294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep20142     Document Type: Article

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