Title
Antibiotic copper oxide-curcumin nanomaterials for antibacterial applications
Date Issued
15 February 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
López M.
Núñez D.
Jayaramudu T.
Sadiku E.R.
Karthikeyan C.
Oyarzúnc P.
Centro de Investigación de Polímeros Avanzados
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
In this investigation, novel antibiotic core-shell copper oxide-curcumin nanocomposite materials were designed and developed for biomedical applications. The antibiotic nanocomposite materials were synthesized by using sonication technique. In this process, the bandgap of the nanomaterial was controlled by using CuO and it was confirmed by UV-DRS. The formation of an antibiotic core-shell nanostructures and their surface morphologies were studied with XRD, SEM/TEM. EDS and ATR-FTIR confirmed the existence of copper oxide and biomolecule Cum in the antibiotic nanocomposites. In addition, it was recognised that Cum regulated sufficiently, the CuO antibacterial performance towards selected bacteria, viz: Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella dysenteriae and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Moreover, the nanomaterials synthesized did show noble antibacterial activity than the standard amoxicillin antibiotic. The finding of this investigation gives unalloyed support that the antibiotic nanocomposites can be highly promising materials for advanced biomedical applications.
Volume
300
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Nano-materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85077008866
Source
Journal of Molecular Liquids
ISSN of the container
01677322
Sponsor(s)
The authors wish to acknowledge the Centro de Investigación de Polímeros Avanzados (CIPA), CONICYT Regional, GORE BIO-BIO R17A10003 and FONDECYT 11160073.
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