Background Food safety and food security remain the major concern of consumers and the
food industry. Bacterial contamination continues to be a crucial food safety issue. Smart …

As a multi-functional biosafety material with outstanding anti-ultraviolet property, good
photocatalytic property as well as antibacterial activity, ZnO shows promising practical …

Metal oxide semiconductors hold great promise for applications in energy conversion and
storage, environmental remediation, optoelectronics, memory, light emission and other …

In this work, copper oxide nanoparticles were efficiently synthesized using a simple and
environmentally friendly sol-gel process and studied their degradability of reactive blue 21 …

Bacterial contamination reduces the shelf-life of foods and presents serious risks to human
health. Nanotechnology provides the opportunity for the development of new antibacterial …

Photo-excitation of certain semiconductors can lead to the production of reactive oxygen
species that can inactivate microorganisms. The mechanisms involved are reviewed, along …

The focus of this undertaking, is on the influence of calcination temperature (600° C to 900°
C), on the features and photocatalytic (PC) performance, of sol–gel synthesized CaCu 3 Ti 4 …

This is the first time Averrhoa carambola fruit extract has been used as a reducing agent to
synthesize Ag/ZnO composites for coating cotton to develop antibacterial activity and UV …

Synthesis of silver‐doped zinc oxide (ZnO: Ag) nanoparticles through precipitation method
has been reported. The synthesis was conducted at room temperature and no subsequent …

Ag-doped ZnO photocatalysts with different Ag molar content (0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 4.0%)
were prepared via hydrothermal method. The X-ray diffraction (XRD), Nitrogen physisorption …