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ArticleScientific reports2022

Evaluation of the antibacterial activities of face masks coated with titanium dioxide nanoparticles.

Omar B Ahmed, Turki Alamro

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Omar B AhmedDepartment of Environmental and Health Research, The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Hajj and Umrah Research, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. abuaglah1@hotmail.com.
Turki AlamroDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 24372, Saudi Arabia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To control infectious diseases, various applications of nanotechnology have been used to enhance the self-cleaning and antibacterial properties of materials. This study aimed to evaluate the antibacterial properties of face masks coated with TiO2 nanoparticles. The antibacterial efficacies of cloth face masks coated with TiO2 were measured by inoculating them in bacterial suspensions (10

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NanoparticlesStaphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsEscherichia coliMasksTitaniumAnti-Bacterial AgentsTitaniumtitanium dioxide

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PMID36333396
PMCPMC9636400

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