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One-pot synthesis of cellulose-templated copper nanoparticles with antibacterial properties

Eivazihollagh, Alireza ; Bäckström, Joakim ; Dahlström, Christina ; Carlsson, Fredrik ; Ibrahem, Ismail ; Lindman, Björn LU ; Edlund, Håkan and Norgren, Magnus LU (2017) In Materials Letters 187. p.170-172
Abstract
We report a facile in situ synthesis of spherical copper nanoparticles (NPs) templated by a gelled cellulose II matrix under alkaline aqueous reaction conditions. In under 20 min, the hybrid material could be obtained in a one-pot reaction. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) revealed that the polycrystalline NPs of 200-500 nm were well distributed in the regenerated cellulose matrix. The average Cu crystallite size was of the order of 20 nm, as estimated from both X-ray diffraction (XRD) and FE-SEM. XRD data also indicated that the composite contained up to approximately 20% Cu2O. In suspensions containing the hybrid material, growth of Escerichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus strains was inhibited by 80% and 95%,... (More)
We report a facile in situ synthesis of spherical copper nanoparticles (NPs) templated by a gelled cellulose II matrix under alkaline aqueous reaction conditions. In under 20 min, the hybrid material could be obtained in a one-pot reaction. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) revealed that the polycrystalline NPs of 200-500 nm were well distributed in the regenerated cellulose matrix. The average Cu crystallite size was of the order of 20 nm, as estimated from both X-ray diffraction (XRD) and FE-SEM. XRD data also indicated that the composite contained up to approximately 20% Cu2O. In suspensions containing the hybrid material, growth of Escerichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus strains was inhibited by 80% and 95%, respectively, after 72 h. The synthesis procedure offers a general approach to designing various low-cost hybrid materials of almost any shape, and the concept could be extended to utilization areas such as catalysis, functional textiles, and food packaging as well as to electronic applications.
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10.1016/j.matlet.2016.10.026
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  author       = {{Eivazihollagh, Alireza and Bäckström, Joakim and Dahlström, Christina and Carlsson, Fredrik and Ibrahem, Ismail and Lindman, Björn and Edlund, Håkan and Norgren, Magnus}},
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  series       = {{Materials Letters}},
  title        = {{One-pot synthesis of cellulose-templated copper nanoparticles with antibacterial properties}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2016.10.026}},
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