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Electroactive Polymer Nanoparticles Exhibiting Photothermal Properties
Published on: January 8, 2016
Functional polypyrrole-silica composites as photothermal agents for targeted killing of bacteria
Enguo Ju1, Zhenhua Li, Meng Li
1State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization and Laboratory of Chemical Biology, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. jren@ciac.jl.cn xqu@ciac.jl.cn.
Abstract:
We demonstrate for the first time that PPy-SiO2-GTA composites can be used as efficient photothermal agents for killing pathogenic bacteria under NIR irradiation. The cell growth of both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria targeted by PPy-SiO2-GTA composites could be inhibited effectively after photothermal treatment.

