Synthesis,characterization,and antimicrobial properties of Cu-inorganic antibacterial material containing lanthanum

In this paper a kind of new inorganic antibacterial material:Cu-antibacterial white carbon black containing lanthanum was synthesized.The characterization and antimicrobial effect of the Cu-antibacterial white carbon black containing lanthanum was investigated.Inorganic antibiotic materials comprised the carrier,the antibacterial ion and the additive.In this study,we choosed white carbon black as the carrier,which was compound by a sol-gel method.Copper ion was selected to be the antibacterial ion,and lanthanum nitrate was selected to be the additive.The as-synthesized Cu-La-antibacterial white carbon black was characterized by inductively coupled plasma(ICP),laser particle size analyzer,Fourier transform infra-red spectroscopy(FT-IR) and antibacterial activity test(Escherichia coli as experimental bacterium).Results showed that the amount of antibacterial ions of the Cu-La-antibacterial white carbon black was higher than that for the general Cu-antibacterial white carbon black.Its bacteriostasis rate was about 98%(when the content of Cu2+ was about 3%),and corresponded to Ag-antibacterial white carbon black(99%).The particle size of Cu-La-antibacterial white carbon black was under 30 μm with a narrow size distribution.Copper ion was bound to white carbon black by ion exchange process.Moreover,this new inorganic antibacterial material showed promising result on the coating surface of metal.