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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Carbon Nanotube/Poly(dimethylsiloxane) Composite Materials to Reduce Bacterial Adhesion.

Márcia R Vagos, Marisa Gomes, Joana M R Moreira, Olívia S G P Soares, Manuel F R Pereira, Filipe J Mergulhão

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Márcia R VagosLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Marisa GomesLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-2061-4697
Joana M R MoreiraLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Olívia S G P SoaresLCM-Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials, Associate Laboratory LSRE/LCM, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9015-1237
Manuel F R PereiraLCM-Laboratory of Catalysis and Materials, Associate Laboratory LSRE/LCM, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-5447-2471
Filipe J MergulhãoLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-5233-1037
Universidade do Porto · PT

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Scientific Employment Stimulus - Institutional Call CEECINST/00049/2018Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UIDB/00511/2020Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UIDB/50020/2020_UIDP/50020/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Different studies have shown that the incorporation of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) enables the production of composite materials with enhanced properties, which can find important applications in the biomedical field. In the present work, CNT/PDMS composite materials have been prepared to evaluate the effects of pristine and chemically functionalized CNT incorporation into PDMS on the composite's thermal, electrical, and surface properties on bacterial adhesion in dynamic conditions. Initial bacterial adhesion was studied using a parallel-plate flow chamber assay performed in conditions prevailing in urinary tract devices (catheters and stents) using

Indexed as

adhesioncarbon nanotubesEscherichia colipoly(dimethylsiloxane)

Identifiers

PMID32707936
PMCPMC7459730
OpenAlexW3045403471

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