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Catherine M Santos1, Maria Celeste R Tria, Regina Aileen May V Vergara
1Department of Civil and Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5003, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 15, 2011
Abstract:
The first report on the fabrication and application of a nanocomposite containing poly-N-vinyl carbazole (PVK) polymer and graphene oxide (GO) as an antimicrobial film was demonstrated. The antimicrobial film was 90% more effective in preventing bacterial colonization relative to the unmodified surface. More importantly, the nanocomposite thin film showed higher bacterial toxicity than pure GO-modified surface.
