Bioinspired hybrid eumelanin–TiO2 antimicrobial nanostructures: the key role of organo–inorganic frameworks in tuning eumelanin's biocide action mechanism through membrane interaction-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Bioinspired hybrid eumelanin–TiO2 antimicrobial nanostructures: the key role of organo–inorganic frameworks in tuning eumelanin's biocide action mechanism through membrane interaction

Published:2018 Issue:50 Volume:8 Page:28275-28283
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Vitiello Giuseppe¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Zanfardino Anna⁶³⁷⁵,Tammaro Olimpia⁸⁹⁵¹⁰¹¹,Di Napoli Michela⁶³⁷⁵,Caso Maria Federica¹²¹³¹⁴¹⁵⁵,Pezzella Alessandro¹⁶¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹⁵^ORCID,Varcamonti Mario⁶³⁷⁵,Silvestri Brigida¹²³⁴⁵,D'Errico Gerardino⁸⁹⁵²⁰³,Costantini Aniello¹²³⁴⁵,Luciani Giuseppina¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical

2. Materials and Production Engineering

3. University of Naples Federico II

4. 80125 Naples

5. Italy

6. Department of Biology

7. 80126 Naples

8. CSGI, Consorzio Interuniversitario per lo Sviluppo dei Sistemi a Grande Interfase

9. 50019 Florence

10. Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care

11. Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

12. Nanofaber Spin-off at Italian National Agency for New Technologies

13. Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)

14. Casaccia Research Centre

15. 00123 Rome

16. Institute for Polymers

17. Composites and Biomaterials (IPCB)

18. CNR

19. 80078 Pozzuoli (Na)

20. Department of Chemical Sciences

Abstract

Hybrid TiO₂/eumelanin nanostructures showed a peculiar biocide mechanism against Gram(−) bacteria, based on the ROS action, produced by eumelanin degradation under visible light irradiation, and the interactions with external bacterial membranes.

Funder

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2018/RA/C8RA04315A

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