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    <title language="eng">Facile Spray-Coating of Antimicrobial Silica Nanoparticles for High-Touch Surface Protection</title>
    <abstract language="eng">The rising threat from infectious pathogens poses an ever-growing challenge. Metal-based nanomaterials have gained a great deal of attention as active components in antimicrobial coatings. Here, we report on the development of readily deployable, sprayable antimicrobial surface coatings for high-touch stainless steel surfaces that are ubiquitous in many healthcare facilities to combat the spread of pathogens. We synthesized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) with different surface functional groups, namely, amine (MSN-NH2), carboxy (MSN-COOH), and thiol groups (MSN-SH). These were chosen specifically due to their high affinity to copper and silver ions, which were used as antimicrobial payloads and could be incorporated into the mesoporous structure through favorable host−guest interactions, allowing us to find the most favorable combinations to achieve antimicrobial efficacy against various microbes on dry or semidry high-touch surfaces. The antimicrobial MSNs were firmly immobilized on stainless steel through a simple two-step spray-coating process. First, the stainless steel surfaces are primed with sprayable polyelectrolyte solutions acting as adhesion layers, and then, the loaded nanoparticle dispersions are spray-coated on top. The employed polyelectrolytes were selected and functionalized specifically to adhere well to stainless steel substrates while at the same time being complementary to the MSN surface groups to enhance the adhesion, wettability, homogeneity, and stability of the coatings. The antimicrobial properties of the nanoparticle suspension and the coatings were tested against three commonly found pathogenic bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli, as well as a fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. Especially MSN-SH loaded with silver ions showed excellent antimicrobial efficacy against all tested pathogens under application-relevant, (semi)dry conditions. The findings obtained here facilitate our understanding of the correlation between the surface properties, payloads, and antimicrobial activity and show a new pathway toward simple and easily deployable solutions to combat the spread of pathogens with the help of sprayable antimicrobial surface coatings.</abstract>
    <parentTitle language="eng">ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces</parentTitle>
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    <author>Carolina Duarte Bernardino</author>
    <author>Mihyun Lee</author>
    <author>Qun Ren</author>
    <author>Bastian Ruehle</author>
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    <title language="eng">Metal-Ion Loaded Silica Nanoparticles as Antimicrobial Coatings for Safer High-Touch Surfaces</title>
    <abstract language="eng">Not only since the Covid-19 pandemic have researchers focused their efforts on high touch surfaces to minimize the contraction of infectious diseases due to human contact. To help prevent the spread of infectious pathogens, surfaces and coatings are designed to minimize the presence or survivability of pathogens on surfaces in various settings, including healthcare centers, long-term care facilities, public transport, schools, and businesses. Extensive research has focused on finding solutions to prevent bacterial transmission and biofilm formation by killing or reducing the attachment of microbes. These solutions include surface-bound active antimicrobials, biocidal coatings, and passive pathogen-repellent surfaces, developed using nanomaterials, chemical modifications, and micro- and nano-structuring.&#13;
Nanomaterials are a prime candidate for such a solution. Here, we developed mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) loaded with antimicrobially active silver and copper ions that can be used in sprayable formulations as surface coatings. The influence of different surface functionalization and metal ion loadings on the efficacy of these sprayable coatings was studied. Amine- (MSN-NH2), carboxy- (MSN-COOH) and thiol-functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSN-SH) were synthesized and characterized using different techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), dynamic light scattering (DLS), electrophoretic light scattering (Zeta potential measurements) and nitrogen sorption measurements.&#13;
After loading MSNs with antimicrobially active silver or copper ions, the nanoparticle dispersions were spray-coated on stainless steel substrates that were primed with sprayable polyelectrolyte solutions to enhance coating homogeneity and nanoparticle adhesion. The metal ion release was analyzed by Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). The antimicrobial properties of the nanoparticle suspension and the coatings were tested against three commonly found pathogenic bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Escherichia coli as well as a fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. The toxicity of the coatings against human skin cells was also assessed.</abstract>
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