Table 5.
Types and antimicrobial properties of graphene-supported bimetallic nanoparticles.
| SR No. | Material | Method | Microbial strain | Inhibition zone (mm) or rate % | MIC (mg/ml) | Other performance indicators | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Graphene–Cu–Ag NPs | Wet chemical method (graphene by CVD) | E. coli | – | – | Suppression of CFU ml−1 | Perdikaki et al., 2016 |
| 2 | Cu–Ag ions stabilized on graphene | Solution method (graphene by CVD) | E. coli | – | – | Suppression of CFU ml−1 | Perdikaki et al., 2018 |
| 3 | Pt–Ag–rGO | Chemical method | E. coli | 6 (radius) | – | – | Zhang et al., 2016a |
| 4 | rGO–Ag–Fe3O4 | Hydrothermal | E. coli | – | – | – | Joshi et al., 2014 |
| 5 | Graphene–Fe–Ag | Chemical reduction | E. coli/S. aureus/B. subtilis | >90% | – | – | Ahmad et al., 2016 |
| 6 | Bi2WO6-graphene | Hydrothermal | – | – | – | Suppression of CFU ml−1 | Chen et al., 2015 |
| 7 | GO–TiO2-Ag | Two-phase | E. coli | – | – | Evaluation of bacterial viability | Liu et al., 2013 |
| 8 | La2CuO4-CeO2 | Solvothermal-assisted homogeneous precipitation | E. coli | 24 ± 1.6 | – | – | Shanavas et al., 2017 |
| La2CuO4-CeO2-rGO | S. aureus | 22 ± 1.3 | |||||
| E. coli | 26 ± 1.2 | ||||||
| S. aureus | 23 ± 1.5 | ||||||
| 9 | Graphene–MnFe2O4 | Solvothermal | E. coli | 82% | – | – | Chella et al., 2015 |
| 10 | rGO–TiO2-MnOX | Microwave method | S. aureus | 10.554 | 15.62 μg/ml | – | Cao et al., 2015 |
| E. coli | 10.915 | 31.25 μg/ml |