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ArticleJournal of chemical education2023

Demonstrating the Synthesis and Antibacterial Properties of Nanostructured Silver.

Lewis Rolband, Varsha Godakhindi, Juan L Vivero-Escoto, Kirill A Afonin

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Article in Journal of chemical education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Lewis RolbandDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9085-8753
Varsha GodakhindiDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.
Juan L Vivero-EscotoDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.
Kirill A AfoninDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6917-3183

Funding

SMART NANPs: new molecular platform for communication with human immune system and modulation of therapeutic responsesR35GM139587 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE · PI AFONIN, KIRILL A · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM139587
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Investigating and understanding novel antibacterial agents is a necessary task as there is a constant increase in the number of multidrug-resistant bacterial species. The use of nanotechnology to combat drug-resistant bacteria is an important research area. The laboratory experiment described herein demonstrates that changes in the nanostructure of a material lead to significantly different antibacterial efficacies. Silver has been known to be an effective antibacterial agent throughout history, but its therapeutic uses are limited when present as either the bulk material or cations in solution. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and DNA-templated silver nanoclusters (DNA-AgNCs) are both nanostructured silver materials that show vastly different antibacterial activities when incubated with

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PMID37720521
PMCPMC10501122

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