1 Introduction
2 Experimental
2.1 Materials and instrumentals
2.2 Coating procedure
2.3 Antibacterial activity screening
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Synthesis
3.2 XRD results
Peaks/2θ | P/nm |
---|---|
31.748 (100) | 11.4 |
34.388 (002) | 12.3 |
36.259 (101) | 12.7 |
56.634 (110) | 11.5 |
62.901 (103) | 11.7 |
3.3 SEM and EDX results
3.4 UV–VIS and FTIR spectra
3.5 Antibacterial activity
Treatment |
E. coli
|
S. aureus
| ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Tube | Subculture | Tube | Subculture | |
ZnO coated cotton | No growth | Negative at 10−1
| No growth | Negative at 10−1
|