Table 4 (%) CFU reduction of microbial strains after incubation applying the nanopigments and nanocomposites using shake flask method.
Test bacteria | Samples | Commercial one | Group I | Group II | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nano-ZnO (1) | ZnO/Si (2) | Nano-CuO (3) | CuO/Si (4) | Nano-ZnO (5) | ZnO/Si (6) | Nano-CuO (7) | CuO/Si (8) | ||||
1 | Micrococcus luteus | – | – | – | 55.23 | 55.08 | – | – | 75.43 | 75.90 | |
2 | Staphylococcus aureus | – | 90.13 | 88.51 | 43.42 | 41.96 | – | 94.95 | – | 54.28 | |
3 | Candida albicans | – | – | – | 50.81 | – | – | – | – | – | |
