Synthesis and characterization of cotton-silver-graphene quantum dots (cotton/Ag/GQDs) nanocomposite as a new antibacterial nanopad

چکیده مقاله

Appearance of antibiotic resistance in bacteria is a convoluted topic, particularly in treating pestiferous immunodeficiency correlated diseases. The main objective of the current research is to fabricate antibacterial pads by utilizing of graphene quantum dots (GQDs) as a linker, stabilizing, and reduction agent of in situ synthesized Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) on cotton pad. Five different antibacterial pads including cotton/Ag pad, cotton/GQDs/Ag pad, cotton/Ag/GQDs pad, cotton/GQDs/Ag/GQDs pad, and cotton/Ag/ GQDs/Ag were fabricated and their antibacterial activities were compared to those of as-synthesized Ag/ GQDs nanocomposites. The results indicate that cotton/GQDs/Ag pad shows a very promising minimum inhibitory concentration(MIC) of 0.09 and 0.01 against S. aureus and E. coli, respectively. Using GQDs as a linker (cotton/GQDs/Ag) and as a stabilizing agent (cotton/Ag/GQDs) significantly improves the antibacterial activity of Ag NPs.