Graphene is a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms arranged in the form of hexagons like a honeycomb, one atomic layer thick, and is the building block for graphite, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Graphene is one of the thinnest and strongest materials known to researchers today.
Joint research by Ben-Gurion University, led by Dr. Ariel Kushmaro, and a research group in Singapore, led by Prof. Xiaodong Chen from Nanyang Technological University, resulted in the development of an innovative structure of graphene, which has an activity Antibacterial and inhibits the development of bacterial biofilms.
Graphene is a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms arranged in the form of hexagons like a honeycomb, one atomic layer thick, and is the building block for graphite, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. Graphene is one of the thinnest and strongest materials known to researchers today.
The future applications of this development focus on the creation of surfaces with properties that will not allow the creation of biofilms, such as desalination membranes, industrial surfaces as well as relevant surfaces in the clinical field, such as catheters, bandages, implants and the like. The development was carried out in collaboration with Dr. Moshe Herzberg and student Yulia Goldovsky from Ben-Gurion University. The findings of this research, which is of great importance in the field of materials, were recently published in a leading scientific journal - Adv. Funct. Mater.
It should be noted that this is a research collaboration within the framework of a research grant from the Singaporean NRF for joint research between Ben-Gurion University, the Hebrew University and the Singaporean Nanyang Technological University.
The new structure was created by the Singaporean group led by Prof. Chen, when the research of Dr. Kushmaro and his team focused on the anti-biofilm properties of the material.
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