Chapter 3
Structural Peculiarities and Properties
of Silver-Containing Polymer
Nanocomposites
V. Demchenko, S. Riabov, S. Kobylinskyi, L. Goncharenko,
and N. Rybalchenko
3.1 Introduction
During the last decades, the interest in studying of nanosize particles of different
metals and their oxides has constantly grown up [1–4]. Primarily, it is due to
their unique characteristics, dramatically different from their analogues – microscale size objects. So, this fact opens new possibilities for diverse applications of
nanomaterials, having advanced properties in industrial areas.
Hybrid materials, containing silver nanoparticles, show promising features for
the design of catalytic systems, and they are currently used in optoelectronics
and nanophotonics [5–10]. In turn, nanocomposite materials [10–12] with silver
nanoparticles have found a wide application as effective antibacterial and antiviral
preparations. Within the recent years (due to the emergence of microorganisms
resistant to known antimicrobial agents), demand in new high-effective substances
for saturation of dressing materials in medical facilities, as well as for the formation
of antimicrobial coatings for providing of sterile conditions in biological and
medical laboratories, for food packaging, for design of antimicrobial air filters for
hospitals’ and microbiological laboratories ventilation, etc., has appeared and is
rapidly growing. Metal nanoparticles, such as copper, silver, and zinc, are in the
focus of the researchers involved into development of effective antimicrobial agents
due to their biocidal activity and high stability in extremal conditions.
V. Demchenko () · S. Riabov · S. Kobylinskyi · L. Goncharenko
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv,
Ukraine
N. Rybalchenko
Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, The National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
O. Fesenko, L. Yatsenko (eds.), Nanochemistry, Biotechnology, Nanomaterials,
and Their Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 214,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92567-7_3
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Structural Peculiarities and Properties
of Silver-Containing Polymer
Nanocomposites
V. Demchenko, S. Riabov, S. Kobylinskyi, L. Goncharenko,
and N. Rybalchenko
3.1 Introduction
During the last decades, the interest in studying of nanosize particles of different
metals and their oxides has constantly grown up [1–4]. Primarily, it is due to
their unique characteristics, dramatically different from their analogues – microscale size objects. So, this fact opens new possibilities for diverse applications of
nanomaterials, having advanced properties in industrial areas.
Hybrid materials, containing silver nanoparticles, show promising features for
the design of catalytic systems, and they are currently used in optoelectronics
and nanophotonics [5–10]. In turn, nanocomposite materials [10–12] with silver
nanoparticles have found a wide application as effective antibacterial and antiviral
preparations. Within the recent years (due to the emergence of microorganisms
resistant to known antimicrobial agents), demand in new high-effective substances
for saturation of dressing materials in medical facilities, as well as for the formation
of antimicrobial coatings for providing of sterile conditions in biological and
medical laboratories, for food packaging, for design of antimicrobial air filters for
hospitals’ and microbiological laboratories ventilation, etc., has appeared and is
rapidly growing. Metal nanoparticles, such as copper, silver, and zinc, are in the
focus of the researchers involved into development of effective antimicrobial agents
due to their biocidal activity and high stability in extremal conditions.
V. Demchenko () · S. Riabov · S. Kobylinskyi · L. Goncharenko
Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv,
Ukraine
N. Rybalchenko
Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, The National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
O. Fesenko, L. Yatsenko (eds.), Nanochemistry, Biotechnology, Nanomaterials,
and Their Applications, Springer Proceedings in Physics 214,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92567-7_3
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