Development of novel BiOBr0.75I0.25 nanostructures with remarkably High dark phase bactericidal activities
2021
Pancholi, Deepika | Bisht, Narendra S. | Pande, Veena | Dandapat, Anirban
Semiconductor materials with promising photocatalytic activities are being developed for numerous applications including their use in the development of antibacterial products. However, the light may not be available everywhere, which restrict the use of semiconductor photocatalytic materials in real applications. In this area, we report a novel nanostructure of BiOBr₀.₇₅I₀.₂₅ to show enormously high bactericidal activities even at dark. We used a solution based single step method at room temperature to produce highly porous and crystalline BiOBrₓI₁₋ₓ (x = 0–1) nanostructures. Next, the developed materials were thoroughly characterized by different analytical techniques, such as FESEM, XRD, XPS, etc. To evaluate the bactericidal activities Escherichia coli (gram-negative bacteria) and Bacillus subtilis (gram-positive bacteria) were selected. Interestingly we found that the solid solutions exhibited high potential towards both the bacteria and among them, BiOBr₀.₇₅I₀.₂₅ showed extremely high efficiencies even at dark. Due to their semiconductor behavior, the materials have shown higher activities in the presence of any light source. The knowledge about the behavior of these unique materials revels a new area of research and would certainly help to find out the solution for ever-increasing environmental issues.
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