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Record W4406081653 · doi:10.1002/adhm.202404911

Silicene‐Based Quantum Dots Nanocomposite Coated Functional UV Protected Textiles With Antibacterial and Antioxidant Properties: A Versatile Solution for Healthcare and Everyday Protection

2025· article· en· W4406081653 on OpenAlex
Poushali Das, Sayan Ganguly, Parham Khoshbakht Marvi, Masoomeh Sherazee, Mohamed Hassan Mahana, Xiaowu Tang, Seshasai Srinivasan, Amin Reza Rajabzadeh

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueAdvanced Healthcare Materials · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicCarbon and Quantum Dots Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of WaterlooMcMaster University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaMcMaster University
KeywordsMaterials scienceNanocompositeNanotechnologyBiocompatibilityAntibacterial activityBiopolymerNanocapsulesPolymerNanoparticleComposite materialBacteria

Abstract

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Abstract The predominant adverse health effects in care delivery result from hospital‐acquired (nosocomial) infections, which impose a substantial financial burden on global healthcare systems. Integrating contact‐killing antibacterial action, gas permeability, and antioxidant properties into textile coatings offers a transformative solution, significantly enhancing both medical and everyday protective applications. This study presents an innovative, pollution‐free physical compounding method for creating a fluorescent biopolymer composite embedded with silicene‐based heteroatom‐doped carbon quantum dots for the production of functional textiles. The resulting coated fabric shows superior ultraviolet (UV) protection behavior (UV A and UV B ), thermal stability, breathability, mechanical strength, and antioxidant capabilities as demonstrated by the 2,2‐diphenyl‐1‐picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) experiment (>78%) and 2,2'‐azino‐bis(3‐ethylbenzothiazoline‐6‐sulphonic acid) ABTS assay (>90%). Rigorous testing against both gram positive and gram negative bacteria confirms that the coated fabric has excellent antibacterial activity. Results from time‐dependent antibacterial assays indicate that the nanocomposite can markedly inhibit bacterial proliferation within a few hours. Molecular dynamics modeling, in conjunction with experimental investigations, is employed to elucidate the intermolecular interactions influencing the components of the treated cotton fabrics. The ongoing research can result in the creation of cost‐effective smart textile substrates aimed at inhibiting microbial contamination in healthcare and medical applications, possibly rendering them commercially viable.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.244 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it