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En nuestra última publicación en la revista Nanomaterials hemos estudiado nuevos materiales antimicrobianos basados en la plata y el grafeno. Este estudio de las propiedades de nuevos materiales lo hemos desarrollado en la Facultad de Química y la Facultad de Medicina y Enfermería de la Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Mónica Cobos, Iker De-La-Pinta, María Jesús Fernández, María Dolores Fernández y Guillermo Quindós.

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Drug resistance of pathogenic microorganisms has become a global public health problem, which has prompted the development of new materials with antimicrobial properties. In this context, antimicrobial nanohybrids are an alternative due to their synergistic properties. In this study, we used an environmentally friendly one-step approach to synthesize graphene oxide (GO) decorated with silver nanoparticles (GO–AgNPs). By this process, spherical AgNPs of average size less than 4 nm homogeneously distributed on the surface of the partially reduced GO can be generated in the absence of any stabilizing agent, only with ascorbic acid (L-AA) as a reducing agent and AgNO₃ as a metal precursor. The size of the AgNPs can be controlled by the AgNO₃ concentration and temperature. Smaller AgNPs are obtained at lower concentrations of the silver precursor and lower temperatures. The antimicrobial properties of nanohybrids against Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus, and the yeast Candida albicans were found to be concentration- and time-dependent. C. albicans and S. aureus showed the highest susceptibility to GO–AgNPs. These nanohybrids can be used as nanofillers in polymer nanocomposites to develop materials with antimicrobial activity for applications in different areas, and another potential application could be cancer therapeutic agents.

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