Toxicity of ZnO and TiO2 to Escherichia coli cells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Leung, Yu Hang ^a   Xu, Xiaoying ^b   Ma, Angel P Y ^a   Liu, Fangzhou ^a   Ng, Alan M C ^a,c   Shen, Zhiyong ^b   Gethings, Lee A ^d   Guo, Mu Yao ^a,c   Djurišic, Aleksandra B ^a   Lee, Patrick K H ^b   Lee, Hung Kay ^e   Chan, Wai Kin ^a   Leung, Frederick C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d WATERS CORPORATION   (United States)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84991067556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep35243     Document Type: Article

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