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    Metal-Free Antibacterial Additives Based on Graphene Materials and Salicylic Acid: From the Bench to Fabric Applications

    Year: 2021

    Journal: ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Volume 13, JUN 9, page 26288–26298

    Authors: Biagiotti, Giacomo; Salvatore, Annalisa; Toniolo, Gianluca; Caselli, Lucrezia; Di Vito, Maura; Cacaci, Margherita; Contiero, Luca; Gori, Tommaso; Maggini, Michele; Sanguinetti, Maurizio; Berti, Debora; Bugli, Francesca; Richichi, Barbara; Cicchi, Stefano

    Organizations: POR FESR 2014-2020, Regione Toscana, Project: GlycoGLAB 4.0: nanoadditivo multiproprieta ad attivita assorbente e preservante

    Keywords: cotton fabrics; graphene; graphene oxide; ball milling; salicylic acid; antibacterial activity; quartz crystal microbalance; Raman

    The custom functionalization of a graphene surface allows access to engineered nanomaterials with improved colloidal stability and tailored specific properties, which are available to be employed in a wide range of applications ranging from materials to life science. The high surface area and their intrinsic physical and biological properties make reduced graphene oxide and graphene oxide unique materials for the custom functionalization with bioactive molecules by exploiting different surface chemistries. In this work, preparation (on the gram scale) of reduced graphene oxide and graphene oxide derivatives functionalized with the well-known antibacterial agent salicylic acid is reported. The salicylic acid functionalities offered a stable colloidal dispersion and, in addition, homogeneous absorption on a sample of textile manufacture ( i.e., cotton fabrics), as shown by a Raman spectroscopy study, thus providing nanoengineered materials with significant antibacterial activity toward different strains of microorganisms. Surprisingly, graphene surface functionalization also ensured resistance to detergent washing treatments as verified on a model system using the quartz crystal microbalance technique. Therefore, our findings paved the way for the development of antibacterial additives for cotton fabrics in the absence of metal components, thus limiting undesirable side effects.
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