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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 44, Issue 19, Pages 9140-9148Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5dt00977d
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21205026]
- HKRGC-GRF [201412]
- University Grants Committee of Hong Kong SAR [AoE/P-03/08]
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To increase the monodispersity of magnetic hybrid nanocomposites, a novel ultrasonic method was introduced to synthesize uniform Fe3O4@SiO2-Ag nanospheres. The immobilized Ag nanocrystals were tunable by varying the experimental conditions. An antibacterial assay indicated that the Fe3O4@SiO2-Ag nanospheres exhibited excellent antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, in which the minimum inhibition concentrations (MIC) were 40 mu g mL(-1) and 20 mu g mL(-1), respectively. The live/dead bacterial cell fluorescence stain assay agreed well with the antibacterial assay. The CCK-8 results indicated these nanospheres were bio-compatible for human normal cells and presented relative cytotoxicity against HepG2 tumor cells. These nanospheres could be easily uptaken by the cells and they could affect bacterial cells both inside and outside the cell membrane, which enable them to be promisingly applied in future biomedical areas.
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