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ArticleAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2021

New Functionalized Macroparticles for Environmentally Sustainable Biofilm Control in Water Systems.

Ana C Barros, Ana Pereira, Luis F Melo, Juliana P S Sousa

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Article in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 45% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ana C BarrosLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Ana PereiraLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.
Luis F MeloLEPABE-Laboratory for Process Engineering, Environment, Biotechnology and Energy, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-8469-4462
Juliana P S SousaINL, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Avenida Mestre José Veiga s/n, 4715-330 Braga, Portugal.
Universidade do Porto · PTInternational Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory · PT

Funding

European Regional Development Fund POCI-01-0247-FEDER-033298Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Inn-INDIGO/0001/2014Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia SFRH/BD/146028/2019Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia UIDB/00511/2020
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reverse osmosis (RO) depends on biocidal agents to control the operating costs associated to biofouling, although this implies the discharge of undesired chemicals into the aquatic environment. Therefore, a system providing pre-treated water free of biocides arises as an interesting solution to minimize the discharge of chemicals while enhancing RO filtration performance by inactivating bacteria that could form biofilms on the membrane system. This work proposes a pretreatment approach based on the immobilization of an industrially used antimicrobial agent (benzalkonium chloride-BAC) into millimetric aluminum oxide particles with prior surface activation with DA-dopamine. The antimicrobial efficacy of the functionalized particles was assessed against

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antimicrobial activitybenzalkonium chloridebiocidal particlesEscherichia colifunctionalization

Identifiers

PMID33917084
PMCPMC8067768
OpenAlexW3146845746

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