Prussian Blue and Its Analogs as Novel Nanostructured Antibacterial Materials

Biocompatible nickel-prussian blue@silver nanocomposites show potent antibacterial activities

Aim Silver nanoparticles have long been used as potent antibacterial agents. However, toxicity concerns of silver nanoparticles have limited their successful clinical applications. Hence, development of silver-based novel biocompatible nanomaterials for antibacterial applications is a challenging task. Materials & methods Accordingly, in this work, we synthesized a biocompatible silver-based ...

Antibacterial effects of bio-inspired nanostructured materials

Several properties of bio-inspired surfaces like chemical composition, surface topography, surface hydrophilicity and even surface charge could influence bacterial adhesion to implant materials. Therefore, a nanostructured surface is being investigated to avoid bacterial colonization by their physico-mechanical and chemical aspects. Both smooth and rough-surfaced titanium (PT, SLA) and zirconia...

Antibacterial properties of tuftsin and its analogs.

The antibacterial properties of tuftsin and its 11 analogs on 20 bacterial strains were investigated. Tuftsin showed a definite antibacterial effect at a minimal effective concentration of 62.5 micrograms/ml. All analogs were either less effective or lacked any activity. The bacteria used included some highly pathogenic organisms.

Design and Preparation of Nanostructured Prussian Blue Modified Electrode for Glucose Detection

Dynamical Aspects of Photoinduced Magnetism and Spin-Crossover phenomena in Prussian Blue Analogs

We present dynamical properties of spin crossover compounds with photomagnetization, proposing a new model in which the spin-crossover phenomena and magnetic ordering are incorporated in a unified way. By using this model, the novel characteristics observed in Prussian blue analogs are qualitatively well reproduced. We investigate the time evolution of the magnetization and high spin fraction t...