Issue 2, 2014
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Polymer Chemistry

Silver-decorated biodegradable polymer vesicles with excellent antibacterial efficacy†

Kaidian Zou,a   Qiuming Liu,a   Jing Chena  and  Jianzhong Du*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Civil Engineering Materials of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, 4800 Caoan Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: jzdu@tongji.edu.cn
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Abstract

We report the first enzymatically degradable polymer vesicle decorated with silver nanoparticles, which showed low cytotoxicity against human normal liver L02 cells near the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) but excellent antibacterial efficacy against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria with quite low MICs of 3.56 μg mL−1 and 7.12 μg mL−1, respectively, exhibiting promising potential applications in nanomedicine.

Graphical abstract: Silver-decorated biodegradable polymer vesicles with excellent antibacterial efficacy

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3PY00966A
Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Jul 2013
Accepted
16 Aug 2013
First published
19 Aug 2013

Polym. Chem., 2014,5, 405-411

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Silver-decorated biodegradable polymer vesicles with excellent antibacterial efficacy

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