Nagarajan Padmavathy

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the bactericidal efficacy of ZnO nanoparticles increases with decreasing particle size, and it is proposed that both the abrasiveness and the surface oxygen species of ZNO nanoparticle promote the biocidal properties of ZngN nanoparticles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of oxidation state in the antibacterial activity of copper oxide nanoparticles (NPs) was investigated and the findings add strong support to a contact killing mechanism of copper oxides (CuO and Cu2O) through which bacteria initially suffer severe damage to the cell envelope.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that nano ZnO damages the structure of bacterial cell membrane and depressed the activity of some membranous enzymes by ROS production which caused E. coli bacteria to die eventually.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a four-step process involving deposition of commercially available colloidal dispersions onto polyethylene terephthalate (PET), drying to induce crackle network formation, nucleating Au or Pd seed nanoparticles inside the crackle regions, washing away the sacrificial layer and finally, depositing Cu electrolessly or by electroplating.

TL;DR: Findings on interlocking the domains of nanoslits of the GO structure by small ecofriendly molecules portray these materials as potential candidates for water separation applications.