Ultraviolet-light-induced bactericidal mechanism on ZnO single crystals

Yonghao Wang; Feng Huang; Danmei Pan; Bin Li; Dagui Chen; Wenwen Lin; Xueyuan Chen; Renfu Li; Zhang Lin

doi:10.1039/B912137D

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Ultraviolet-light-induced bactericidal mechanism on ZnO single crystals†

Yonghao Wang,^a Feng Huang,*^a Danmei Pan,^b Bin Li,^b Dagui Chen,^a Wenwen Lin,^a Xueyuan Chen,^a Renfu Li^a and Zhang Lin*^b

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^a Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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^b State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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Abstract

By comparing the photocatalytic bactericidal effect on different crystal faces of bulk ZnO crystal, we found that an electron degradation mechanism dominates the photocatalytic processes of ZnO material.

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Experimental section; real-time growth status of E. coli after 365 nm irradiation treatment; controlexperiment in the absence of UV light; surface damage situation of E. coli under UV light of different wavelengths; AFM imageat a large scale; changes of the width?length ratio for E. coli under different treatment conditions; sketch of E. coli cutting via different directions in TEM experiments; TEM micrographsof E. coli thin sections at a large scale PDF (1112K)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B912137D
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 19 Jun 2009
Accepted: 10 Sep 2009
First published: 29 Sep 2009

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Chem. Commun., 2009, 6783-6785

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Ultraviolet-light-induced bactericidal mechanism on ZnO single crystals

Y. Wang, F. Huang, D. Pan, B. Li, D. Chen, W. Lin, X. Chen, R. Li and Z. Lin, Chem. Commun., 2009, 6783 DOI: 10.1039/B912137D

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Ultraviolet-light-induced bactericidal mechanism on ZnO single crystals†

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