Morphology effect on antibacterial activity of cuprous oxide

Abstract

A glycine-mediated mixed-solvothermal approach has been proposed for the synthesis of novel Cu₂O structures with different morphologies and the morphology effect on the antibacterial activity of the obtained Cu₂O crystals has been studied, confirming that the obtained Cu₂O crystals all show good antibacterial effects and that with the morphology of the Cu₂O crystals changing from cubic to octahedral, the antibacterial property changes from general bacteriostasis to high selectivity.