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Highly crystalline TiO2 nanocuboids have been prepared and their photocatalytic hydrogen generation activity was evaluated via water splitting.

The incessant use of antibiotics against infectious diseases has translated into a vicious circle of developing new antibiotic drug and its resistant strains in short period of time due to inherent nature of microorganisms to alter their genes. Many researchers have been trying to formulate inorganic nanoparticles-based antiseptics that may be linked to broad-spectrum activity and far lower propensity to induce microbial resistance than antibiotics. The way-out approaches in this direction are nanomaterials based (1) bactericidal and (2) bacteriostatic activities. We, herein, present hitherto unreported observations on microbial abatement using non-cytotoxic molybdenum disulfide nanostructures (MSNs) which are synthesized using microwave assisted solvothermal route. Inhibition of biofilm formation using MSNs is a unique feature of our study. Furthermore, this study evinces antimicrobial mechanism of MSNs by reactive oxygen species (ROS) dependent generation of superoxide anion radical via disruption of cellular functions.

Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal tin disulfide (SnS2) nanostructures were prepared via a hydrothermal method using ethylenediamine as a capping agent.

The photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanorods towards methylene blue dye degradation was enhanced by loading 0.5, 1, 5, and 10 mol% silver nanoparticles on the ZnO.