Artigo de peri??dico
Silver and titanium nanoparticles used as coating on polyurethane catheters
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1661-9897
47
10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.47.17
8.391
Autor
HEILMAN, S.
SILVA, L.G.A.
Resumen
Silver nanoparticles have been used in the medical area due to their remarkable
antimicrobial properties. In this sense titanium dioxide nanoparticles obtained by the sol-gel method
were used as coating of catheters for subsequent impregnation of silver nanoparticles with gamma
irradiation and electron beam at 25 and 50 kGy. This work aimed to study the use of the silver
nanoparticles and titanium dioxide as coating of polyurethane Central Venous Catheter (CVC) for
antimicrobial activity. Furthermore the amounts of titanium and silver present in the coated
catheters had been evaluated by Inductively Coupled Plasma ??? Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP
OES). Therefore the Raman spectrometry was used to identify the polymorph of titanium oxide,
rutile.