The manufacture and characterisation of silver oxide films for application as bactericidal coatings are described in the research.
There are reports on the synthesis parameters, dissolution/elution rate, and bactericidal effectiveness.
Reactive magnetron sputtering was used to generate the synthetic conditions necessary to produce AgO, Ag2O, or combinations of AgO and Ag2O on surfaces.
All of the examined bacterial strains are hampered from growing by the coatings, which exhibit good adherence to numerous substrate materials.
<em>Escherichia coli</em> and <em>Staphylococcus aureus</em> can be killed by the coatings, which also show a distinct zone of inhibition against bacteria growing on solid media and the capacity to quickly stop bacterial growth in planktonic culture.
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