Effectiveness of titanium nitride silver coatings against Staphylococcus spp. in the presence of BSA and whole blood conditioning agents
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 1819
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.ibiod.2018.06.016
- Title of journal
- International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation
- Article number
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- First page
- 44
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0964-8305
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2018.06.016
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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9
- Research group(s)
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D - Surface Engineering
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Combining expertise from internationally leading groups in the field of microbiology and surface engineering. It provides a potential route to the solution of clinical infection resulting from external bone fixation (up to 30% infection rates). This work is outstanding in that it combines bactericidal and tribological properties known to affect microbial retention in a single composite coating, and investigated the mechanisms by which silver nanoparticles counteract different organisms, along with testing under conditions relevant to clinical use. A progression of research conducted on EPSRC grant EP/F014325/1, the research emerged from the bridging the gaps programme “Nano-Info-Bio” EP/H000291/1.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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