Issue 19, 2013

Synthesis and antibacterial properties of magnetically recyclable nanoporous silver/Fe3O4 nanocomposites through one-step dealloying

Abstract

We present a facile one-step dealloying strategy to fabricate novel nanoporous silver (NPS)/Fe3O4 nanocomposites with tunable magnetism and excellent antibacterial ability. The NPS/Fe3O4 nanocomposites were obtained by chemically dealloying rapidly solidified Al–Ag–Fe precursors in a 20 wt% NaOH solution. The microstructure of the NPS/Fe3O4 nanocomposites has been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high resolution TEM (HRTEM) with nanobeam-EDX (NB-EDX). In the nanocomposites, the NPS matrix exhibits an open bicontinuous interpenetrating ligament–channel structure, with ligament/channel sizes of 20–50 nm, and the embedded Fe3O4 particles are octahedral and several hundred nanometers in size. Through changing the Ag/Fe atomic ratio in the Al–Ag–Fe precursors, we can tune the magnetic properties of the NPS/Fe3O4 nanocomposites. Antibacterial tests demonstrate that the NPS/Fe3O4 nanocomposites show excellent antibacterial activities against E. coli K12 and the embedded Fe3O4 makes these materials magnetically recyclable. The present NPS/Fe3O4 nanocomposites are potential antibacterial materials with a magnetically recyclable property.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis and antibacterial properties of magnetically recyclable nanoporous silver/Fe3O4 nanocomposites through one-step dealloying

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
10 Jan 2013
Accepted
13 Mar 2013
First published
13 Mar 2013

CrystEngComm, 2013,15, 3965-3973

Synthesis and antibacterial properties of magnetically recyclable nanoporous silver/Fe3O4 nanocomposites through one-step dealloying

C. Zhang, X. Wang, J. Sun, T. Kou and Z. Zhang, CrystEngComm, 2013, 15, 3965 DOI: 10.1039/C3CE00053B

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