TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jose, Ajay
AU  - Yadav, Pooja
AU  - Svirskis, Darren
AU  - Swift, Simon
AU  - Gizdavić-Nikolaidis, Marija
PY  - 2024
UR  - https://vinar.vin.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/12827
AB  - Surface contamination and transmission can lead to Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) in a healthcare environment. To tackle this problem, a sustainable antimicrobial coating is desirable. Photocatalytic coatings with titanium dioxide (TiO2) as the main component activated by UV light are one option. In order to implement the coating in a real-world hospital setting the photocatalytic component must show activity under visible light. In this article the TiO2 photocatalyst was synthesised as both 2- and 3- component composites with polyaniline (PANI) or poly(aniline-co-3-aminobenzoic acid) (fPANI) and Ag nanoparticles to achieve photocatalytic performance activated by visible light. The UV-DRS results supported the visible light photocatalytic capability of both 2- and 3-component composite systems, and the ESR spectra exhibited the presence of charge carriers (unpaired electrons), which was confirmed by conductivity studies. The intensity of the ESR peak increases around 3-fold for PANI/fPANI-TiO2-Ag composites compared to pure PANI/fPANI. The conductivity of pure PANI and fPANI was only mildly enhanced in 3-component systems, which could be due to presence of TiO2, whereas the value increased by around three times for PANI/fPANI-Ag 2-component system due to conductive Ag nanoparticles. The composites with fPANI showed improved antimicrobial activity than PANI composites against three representative microorganisms Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and a model viral strain bacteriophage Phi X 174. Finally, we proposed a mechanism for photocatalytic activity for both 2- and 3- component systems.
T2  - Synthetic Metals
T1  - Antimicrobial photocatalytic PANI based-composites for biomedical applications
VL  - 303
SP  - 117562
DO  - 10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117562
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Jose, Ajay and Yadav, Pooja and Svirskis, Darren and Swift, Simon and Gizdavić-Nikolaidis, Marija",
year = "2024",
abstract = "Surface contamination and transmission can lead to Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI) in a healthcare environment. To tackle this problem, a sustainable antimicrobial coating is desirable. Photocatalytic coatings with titanium dioxide (TiO2) as the main component activated by UV light are one option. In order to implement the coating in a real-world hospital setting the photocatalytic component must show activity under visible light. In this article the TiO2 photocatalyst was synthesised as both 2- and 3- component composites with polyaniline (PANI) or poly(aniline-co-3-aminobenzoic acid) (fPANI) and Ag nanoparticles to achieve photocatalytic performance activated by visible light. The UV-DRS results supported the visible light photocatalytic capability of both 2- and 3-component composite systems, and the ESR spectra exhibited the presence of charge carriers (unpaired electrons), which was confirmed by conductivity studies. The intensity of the ESR peak increases around 3-fold for PANI/fPANI-TiO2-Ag composites compared to pure PANI/fPANI. The conductivity of pure PANI and fPANI was only mildly enhanced in 3-component systems, which could be due to presence of TiO2, whereas the value increased by around three times for PANI/fPANI-Ag 2-component system due to conductive Ag nanoparticles. The composites with fPANI showed improved antimicrobial activity than PANI composites against three representative microorganisms Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and a model viral strain bacteriophage Phi X 174. Finally, we proposed a mechanism for photocatalytic activity for both 2- and 3- component systems.",
journal = "Synthetic Metals",
title = "Antimicrobial photocatalytic PANI based-composites for biomedical applications",
volume = "303",
pages = "117562",
doi = "10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117562"
}

Jose, A., Yadav, P., Svirskis, D., Swift, S.,& Gizdavić-Nikolaidis, M.. (2024). Antimicrobial photocatalytic PANI based-composites for biomedical applications. in Synthetic Metals, 303, 117562.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117562

Jose A, Yadav P, Svirskis D, Swift S, Gizdavić-Nikolaidis M. Antimicrobial photocatalytic PANI based-composites for biomedical applications. in Synthetic Metals. 2024;303:117562.
doi:10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117562 .

Jose, Ajay, Yadav, Pooja, Svirskis, Darren, Swift, Simon, Gizdavić-Nikolaidis, Marija, "Antimicrobial photocatalytic PANI based-composites for biomedical applications" in Synthetic Metals, 303 (2024):117562,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.synthmet.2024.117562 . .