Delta SARS-CoV-2 inactivation and bactericidal performance of cotton wipes decorated with TiO2/Ag nanoparticles like Brazilian heavy-fruited Myrciaria cauliflora.
Mater Today Commun
; 33: 104288, 2022 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1996445
ABSTRACT
The current pandemic of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) raised several concerns about using conventional textiles for manufacturing personal protective equipment without self-disinfecting properties since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is transmitted mainly by aerosols that can transpose cotton masks. Therefore, developing new cotton fibers with high self-disinfecting ability is essential to avoid a new pandemic due to new SARS-CoV-2 variants. Herein, we developed cotton wipes (CFs) with fibers coated by Ag, TiO2, and Ag/TiO2 hybrid nanoparticles like Brazilian heavy-fruited Myrciaria cauliflora by a sonochemical approach. Moreover, the coated CFs present high antimicrobial performance against Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), being able to inactivate infectious SARS-CoV-2 (Delta variant) by the destruction of the spike, membrane, and nucleocapsid proteins while the viral RNA is not significantly affected, according to the molecular biological findings.
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Brazil
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English
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Mater Today Commun
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2022
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J.mtcomm.2022.104288
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