Investigation of metal absorption and antibacterial activity on cotton fabric modified by low temperature plasma

• DOI: 10.1007/s10570-010-9400-3
• Publication Date: 2010-02-02T21:57:00Z
• Authors: S. Shahidi; A. Rashidi; M. Ghoranneviss; A. Anvari; M. K. Rahimi; M. Bameni Moghaddam; J. Wiener
• Keywords: Surface Modification; Silver nitrate

In this work, the silver particle absorption and antibacterial activity of cotton fabric when modified by low temperature plasma were investigated. The modification consisted of plasma pre-functionalization followed by one-step wet treatment with silver nitrate solution. Oxygen and nitrogen were used as the working gases in the system, and the results were compared. The results showed that nitrogen plasma-treated samples can absorb more silver particles than oxygen-treated samples, and thus the antibacterial activity of the samples in this case, which was analyzed by the counting bacteria test, was increased considerably.