FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS WITH ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY

摘要

The present invention relates to nanomaterialscomprised of metal oxides associated with cationicmetals having antibacterial activity.In particular, the present invention relates tonanocrystalline compounds of formula (I):AO x-(L-Me n +)i , (I)where AO x represents the metal oxide or metalloidoxide, with x = 1 or 2;Me n+ is a metal ion having antibacterialactivity, with n = 1 or 2;L is a bifunctional molecule, either organic ororganometallic, capable of binding simultaneouslywith the metal oxide or metalloid oxide and the metalion Me n+; andi represents the number of L-Me n+ groups bound toa AO x nanoparticle.