L. T. Liu, Y. Z. Li, K. P. Yu, et al. A novel stainless steel with intensive silver nanoparticles showing superior antibacterial property[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2021, 9(6): 270-277.
DOI:
L. T. Liu, Y. Z. Li, K. P. Yu, et al. A novel stainless steel with intensive silver nanoparticles showing superior antibacterial property[J]. Materials Research Letters, 2021, 9(6): 270-277.DOI: 10.1080/21663831.2021.1894613.
A novel stainless steel with intensive silver nanoparticles showing superior antibacterial property
Stainless steels (SS) are one of the most widely used
affordable materials in public areas
but suffer from a lack of antibacterial property. Unfortunately
traditional steel casting alloying strategy has limits to add Ag due to the extremely low solubility of Ag in SS. The present work demonstrates a novel powder metallurgy technology to fabricate Ag-contained SS with a unique microstructure in which the average distance between Ag particles is similar to the size of a typical bacterium
enabling the direct contact killing mechanism. Consequently
the new Ag-contained SS possesses an excellent and stable antibacterial rate of over 99%.