Ag+ driven antimicrobial activity of Ag+: ZnO nanowires immobilized on paper matrices

Microwave assisted ultrafast immobilization of CuO nanostructures in paper matrices for antimicrobial applications

“…6a. In all the specimens, peaks for carbon and oxygen are present at 286.6 and 532.9 eV, respectively, coming from the cellulose (Aggrawal et al 2019;Aggrawal et al 2015). In the survey scan of CuO immobilized specimen, several peaks have been observed in the region of 930-970 eV which are originated from Cu and satellite peaks con rming the presence of Cu in the specimens (Cao et al 2019).…”

“…5). Three broad peaks centered at d-values of 0.5823 and 0.3896 nm can be seen in all the specimens, which are attributed to the ( 101) and ( 002) re ections of cellulose-I, respectively (Aggrawal et al 2019;Aggrawal et al 2015). In the CuO immobilized paper matrices, additional peaks at d values of 0.4685, 0.3423, 0.5132 nm and 99.52, respectively have been observed which are assigned to the (-111), ( 200) and (-202) planes of the monoclinic phase of CuO (JCPDS le no.…”

“…6b reveals the presence of three chemically different carbon in the structure of cellulose. The three peaks at 284.8, 286.5 and 287.7 eV could be attributed to chemically different carbon, one with ether link, second carbon linked to hydroxyl groups and third carbon having two ether links, respectively (Aggrawal et al 2019). The high resolution O1s spectra (Fig.…”

“…The retention of CuO nano akes in the paper matrices have been estimated using combustion test and TGA analysis carried out in argon atmosphere (Aggrawal et al 2019;Aggrawal et al 2015). The paper matrices burnt in air at 520 C for 4 h in a mu e furnace could burn out the organic mass completely leaving behind the inorganic CuO nanostructures.…”

“…In this direction, our research group invented a hydrothermal approach, where neither of these linker, binder and retention aid was used to immobilize various metal oxide nanostructures such as ZnO, TiO 2 , Ce 2 O 3 , Fe 2 O 3 etc. on the surface of cellulose bers of the paper matrices (Aggrawal et al 2019;Aggrawal et al 2015;Chauhan et al 2015b).…”