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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Green Synthesis of Hierarchically Structured Silver-Polymer Nanocomposites with Antibacterial Activity.

María Jesús Hortigüela, Luis Yuste, Fernando Rojo, Inmaculada Aranaz

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. SuperiorFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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  5. Antimicrobial Polymers in the Nano-World.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017
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4 authors.

María Jesús HortigüelaInstituto de Ciencia de los Materiales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus of Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain. mjhortiguela@gmail.com.
Luis YusteCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus of Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain. lyuste@cnb.csic.es.
Fernando RojoCentro Nacional de Biotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus of Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain. frojo@cnb.csic.es.
Inmaculada AranazInstituto de Ciencia de los Materiales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus of Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain. iaranaz@hotmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The in situ formation of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) aided by chondroitin sulfate and the preparation of a hierarchically structured silver-polymer nanocomposite with antimicrobial activity is shown. Green synthesis of AgNPs is carried out by thermal treatment (80 and 90 °C) or UV irradiation of a chondroitin sulfate solution containing AgNO₃ without using any further reducing agents or stabilizers. Best control of the AgNPs size and polydispersity was achieved by UV irradiation. The ice-segregation-induced self-assembly (ISISA) process, in which the polymer solution containing the AgNPs is frozen unidirectionally, and successively freeze-drying were employed to produce the chondroitin sulfate 3D scaffolds. The scaffolds were further crosslinked with hexamethylene diisocyanate vapors to avoid water solubility of the 3D structures in aqueous environments. The antimicrobial activity of the scaffolds was tested against

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chondroitin sulfatenanoparticlesscaffoldssilver

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PMID28335265
PMCPMC5224622

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