Unraveling the Formation of Ternary AgCuSe Crystalline Nanophases and Their Potential as Antibacterial Agents
© 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.
| Publié dans: | Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society. - 1998. - 36(2024), 20 vom: 22. Okt., Seite 10154-10166 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2024
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| Accès à la collection: | Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society |
| Sujets: | Journal Article |
| Résumé: | © 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. AgCuSe nanoparticles could contribute to the growth of strongly light-absorbing thin films and solids with fast ion mobility, among other potential properties. Nevertheless, few methods have been developed so far for the synthesis of AgCuSe nanoparticles, and those reported deliver nanostructures with relatively large sizes and broad size and shape distributions. In this work, a colloidal cation exchange method is established for the easy synthesis of AgCuSe NPs with ca. 8 nm diameters and narrow size dispersion. Notably, in this lower size range the conucleation and growth of two stoichiometric ternary compounds are generally observed, namely the well-known eucairite AgCuSe compound and the novel fischesserite-like Ag3CuSe2 phase, the latter being less thermodynamically stable as predicted computationally and assessed experimentally. An optimal range of Cu/Ag precursor molar ratio has been identified to ensure the growth of ternary nanoparticles and, more specifically, that of the metastable Ag3CuSe2 nanophase isolated for the first occasion. The attained size range for the material paves the way for utilizing AgCuSe nanoparticles in new ways within the field of biomedicine: the results obtained here confirm the antibacterial activity of the new Ag x Cu y Se z nanoparticles against Gram-positive bacteria, with significantly low values of the minimal inhibitory concentration |
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| Description: | Date Revised 29.10.2024 published: Electronic-eCollection Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 0897-4756 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01604 |