Highly effective photodynamic inactivation of E. coli using gold nanorods/SiO2 core-shell nanostructures with
Kostiantyn Turcheniuk1, Volodymyr Turcheniuk2, Charles-Henri Hage3
1Institute d'Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN, UMR CNRS 8520), Université Lille 1, Avenue Poincaré, BP 60069, 59652 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. sabine.szunerits@iri.univ-lille1.fr.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 26, 2015
Abstract:
The potential of gold nanorods post-coated with a 20 nm silica shell loaded with verteporfin (Au NRs@SiO2-VP) as efficient near-infrared nanostructures for photodynamic therapy under continuous wave and pulsed-mode excitation to eradicate a virulent strain of E. coli associated with urinary tract infection is described.
