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RE: Engineering A Better Band-Aid: Antibacterial Paper Created With Silver Coated Gold Nanoparticles

in #science7 years ago (edited)

I read in an article sometime back that in Brazil doctors are treating inferno victims with fish skin apparently it works really well and you don't have to change it severally unlike normal bandages.

Downside is you will smell like dead fish for weeks, upside you heal faster with less pain

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I wonder what the mechanism is that fish skins would help. I wonder if there are antimicrobial compounds in the skins?

The next image to the right (c) we are looking at nanoparticles with a low amount of the silver (thats the 1000 gold/1 silver ratio), these particles also did NOT kill the bacteria, hmm.

so they need a lot of silver then? hmmm.. just resort to a more affordable band aid and just spread calendula cream on the wound

It's not actually all that much metal no.

They used This Kit to apply silver to the gold nano particles.

I see. costly band aid?

Dunno yet :)