Antimicrobial action and chemical and physical properties of CuO-doped engineered cementitious composites

Abstract CuO nanoparticles (NPs) were added to cement matrices in quantities of 0.25, 0.50 and 1.00 wt% to inhibit the growth of Gram-positive (Bacillus cereus, Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli) bacteria. It was shown that CuO NPs, in all tested conc...

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Main Authors: Agnieszka Ślosarczyk, Izabela Klapiszewska, Anna Parus, Sebastian Balicki, Kamil Kornaus, Bartosz Gapiński, Michał Wieczorowski, Kazimiera A. Wilk, Teofil Jesionowski, Łukasz Klapiszewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37673-1