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ArticleScientific reports2022

Arc discharge rapid synthesis of engineered copper oxides nano shapes with potent antibacterial activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria.

Bassma H Elwakil, M Toderas, Mostafa El-Khatib

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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 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Bassma H ElwakilDepartment of Medical Laboratory Technology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences Technology, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria, 21526, Egypt. bassma.hassan@pua.edu.eg.ORCID 0000-0001-6596-3156
M ToderasDepartment of Physics, University of Oradea, 410087, Oradea, Romania.
Mostafa El-KhatibBasic Sciences Department, Faculty of Engineering, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria, 21526, Egypt.
Pharos University in Alexandria · EGUniversity of Oradea · RO

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nowadays Nano metals have received an eminent compromise of attention. Even though different nanostructure of same metal maybe gives different results in wide range applications. Copper oxide (CuO-NPs) and Copper Nano wires (CuO-NWs) were prepared in controlled size via the alternating current Arc discharge process. Deionized water and argon gas were the chosen dielectric medium during the process to obtain 2 different forms of copper oxides. By changing the dielectric material from deionized water to argon gas the shape of CuO nanoparticles changed from spherical (CuO-NPs) to wires (CuO-NWS). The yield prepared depicted the purity of the prepared CuO, and their diameters were about 10 ± 5 nm and 30 ± 3 nm for CuO-NWs and CuO-NPs respectively. In vitro cytotoxic effect of the prepared CuO-NWs & CuO-NPs using human normal lung fibroblast cell line (WI-38 cells) revealed that CuO-NWs & CuO-NPs CC

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Acinetobacter baumanniiCopperAnti-Bacterial AgentsArgonHumansPatient DischargeWaterAnti-Bacterial AgentsArgonCoppercupric oxidecuprous oxideWater

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