A research, done with the collaboration between City College of New York (CCNY) and Rice University of Houston have resulted in a new, environmental friendly and low cost technique of developing ‘antimicrobial paints’. What the technique does is embedding antimicrobial silver nanoparticles into vegetable oil-based paints as it is said that silver nanoparticles are having remarkable antibacterial properties while being non toxic to organisms.
According to the researchers, the process is simple and economically significant. They are using the same natural lipid oxidization process that happens regularly within our body, to generate a variety of chemically active free radicals which subsequently act as a tool in synthesizing non-toxic, antibacterial silver nanoparticles in situ in the oil medium.
“The simplicity of the process and economics should allow us to commercialize these paints as a versatile coating material for health and environmental applications” says Dr. Pulickel M. Ajayan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Rice University in Houston, and the co-author of the article.
It is said that these antibacterial paints are more suitable for public buildings specially for hospitals as it have shown effective defense against germs like Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus)—two of the main disease causing bacteria.
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According to the researchers, the process is simple and economically significant. They are using the same natural lipid oxidization process that happens regularly within our body, to generate a variety of chemically active free radicals which subsequently act as a tool in synthesizing non-toxic, antibacterial silver nanoparticles in situ in the oil medium.
“The simplicity of the process and economics should allow us to commercialize these paints as a versatile coating material for health and environmental applications” says Dr. Pulickel M. Ajayan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Rice University in Houston, and the co-author of the article.
It is said that these antibacterial paints are more suitable for public buildings specially for hospitals as it have shown effective defense against germs like Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus)—two of the main disease causing bacteria.
Read the original article ; category : Nanotechnology, Chemistry
