Comparative analysis between gamma-irradiation and three chemical disinfectants using antibacterial efficacy and tensile strength of polymers
- Authors
- Ahn, Dajeong; Lee, Jaewoong; Roh, Changhyun; Sul, InHwan; Kang, Chankyu
- Issue Date
- 20-Jan-2018
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCI LTD
- Keywords
- gamma-Irradiation; Chemical disinfectants; Antibacterial efficacy; Tensile strengths
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, v.172, pp.847 - 854
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
- Volume
- 172
- Start Page
- 847
- End Page
- 854
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/kumoh/handle/2020.sw.kumoh/345
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.215
- ISSN
- 0959-6526
- Abstract
- Chemical disinfectants, widely used as antibacterial criteria, have been extensively studied for the past few decades by being divided into three levels, and gamma-irradiation is also currently recognized as an outstanding antibacterial technique. However, there is no correlation between the strengths of the two methods. Antibacterial efficacy and tensile strengths of various natural and synthetic polymers inoculated with Escherichia coli (gram-negative) and Staphylococcus aureus (gram-positive) were analyzed using SEM; FT-IR, and tensile strength instruments. High and medium-level chemical disinfectants showed a similar effect to 2 kGy and 0.5 kGy of gamma-irradiation doses for antibacterial analysis. In addition, the degradation of material properties through tensile strength analysis was observed only with high-level chemical disinfectants. When the correlation of high-level chemical disinfectants and gamma-irradiation doses was compared through analysis of tensile strength, high-level chemical disinfectants exhibited a result equivalent to a 0.5 kGy gamma-irradiation dose for synthetic polymers, while natural polymers were observed to be similar to 5 kGy for cotton and 50 kGy for wool, respectively. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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