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Study Effect of nAg Particle Size on the Properties and Antibacterial Characteristics of Polysulfone Membranes

Polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes were fabricated using various sizes (20, 40, and 90–210 nm) of silver nanoparticles (nAg) blended in a dope solution. To characterize the performance and properties of the prepared membranes, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water contact angle, protein separ...

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Autores principales: Prihandana, Gunawan Setia, Sriani, Tutik, Muthi’ah, Aisyah Dewi, Machmudah, Affiani, Mahardika, Muslim, Miki, Norihisa
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35159732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12030388
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author Prihandana, Gunawan Setia
Sriani, Tutik
Muthi’ah, Aisyah Dewi
Machmudah, Affiani
Mahardika, Muslim
Miki, Norihisa
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Sriani, Tutik
Muthi’ah, Aisyah Dewi
Machmudah, Affiani
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description Polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes were fabricated using various sizes (20, 40, and 90–210 nm) of silver nanoparticles (nAg) blended in a dope solution. To characterize the performance and properties of the prepared membranes, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water contact angle, protein separation, water flux, and antibacterial tests were conducted. The characterization results revealed that when nAg particles (20 nm) were blended into the base polymer PSF, the PSF/nAg blended membrane had the lowest contact angle (58.5°) and surface energy (110.7 mN/m). When experimenting with ultrafiltration using protein solutions, bare PSF and PSF/nAg-20 blended membranes gave similar values of protein rejection: 93% of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 70% of lysozyme rejection. Furthermore, SEM studies showed that the surface pore size was reduced by adding 20 nm nAg particles in the casting solution. Most importantly, the introduction of 40 nm nAg particles reduced the growth of bacterial colonies on the membrane surface by up to 72%. These findings revealed that nAg particles are expected to be a potential modifier for the fabrication of an ultrafiltration membrane.
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spelling pubmed-88405662022-02-13 Study Effect of nAg Particle Size on the Properties and Antibacterial Characteristics of Polysulfone Membranes Prihandana, Gunawan Setia Sriani, Tutik Muthi’ah, Aisyah Dewi Machmudah, Affiani Mahardika, Muslim Miki, Norihisa Nanomaterials (Basel) Article Polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes were fabricated using various sizes (20, 40, and 90–210 nm) of silver nanoparticles (nAg) blended in a dope solution. To characterize the performance and properties of the prepared membranes, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water contact angle, protein separation, water flux, and antibacterial tests were conducted. The characterization results revealed that when nAg particles (20 nm) were blended into the base polymer PSF, the PSF/nAg blended membrane had the lowest contact angle (58.5°) and surface energy (110.7 mN/m). When experimenting with ultrafiltration using protein solutions, bare PSF and PSF/nAg-20 blended membranes gave similar values of protein rejection: 93% of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and 70% of lysozyme rejection. Furthermore, SEM studies showed that the surface pore size was reduced by adding 20 nm nAg particles in the casting solution. Most importantly, the introduction of 40 nm nAg particles reduced the growth of bacterial colonies on the membrane surface by up to 72%. These findings revealed that nAg particles are expected to be a potential modifier for the fabrication of an ultrafiltration membrane. MDPI 2022-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8840566/ /pubmed/35159732 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12030388 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Miki, Norihisa
Study Effect of nAg Particle Size on the Properties and Antibacterial Characteristics of Polysulfone Membranes
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title_short Study Effect of nAg Particle Size on the Properties and Antibacterial Characteristics of Polysulfone Membranes
title_sort study effect of nag particle size on the properties and antibacterial characteristics of polysulfone membranes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8840566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35159732
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12030388
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