Issue 41, 2010
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

One-pot synthesis of monodispersed ZnS nanospheres with high antibacterial activity†

Gaiping Li,ab   Junfeng Zhai,ab   Dan Li,a   Xiaona Fang,c   Hong Jiang,a   Qingzhe Donga  and  Erkang Wang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
E-mail: ekwang@ciac.jl.cn
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b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, P. R. China

c College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, P. R. China

Abstract

A facile one-pot method to prepare water-soluble, uniform-sized ZnS nanospheres (NSs) is reported. In the reaction, gradually decomposed thioacetamide (TAA) was used as the sulfur precursor, and cationic surfactant didodecyldimethylammonium bromide (DDAB) embedded with ferrocene (Fc) as the ligands for anions. The synthesized ZnS NSs were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Wonderfully, the obtained ZnS NSs exhibited high performance in prohibiting the growth of Escherichia coli strain MG1655 (E. coli) and negligible mammalian cell toxicity, and these important features make it a promising antimicrobial agent for controlling implant-related infections.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0JM01776K
Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Jun 2010
Accepted
25 Jul 2010
First published
13 Sep 2010

J. Mater. Chem., 2010,20, 9215-9219

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One-pot synthesis of monodispersed ZnS nanospheres with high antibacterial activity

G. Li, J. Zhai, D. Li, X. Fang, H. Jiang, Q. Dong and E. Wang, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 9215 DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01776K

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