Abstract
In recent years, a lot of commercial TiO2 photocatalyst products have been
developed and extensively studied for prospective and safe antimicrobial
application in daily life, medicine, laboratories, food and pharmaceutical
industry, waste water treatments and in development of new self-cleaning and
antimicrobial materials, surfaces and paints. This paper reviews the studies
published worldwide on killing microorganisms, methods for testing the
antimicrobial activity, light sources and intensities, as well as calculation
methods usually used when evaluating the antimicrobial properties of the
TiO2-based products. Additionally, some strengths and weaknesses of the
available methods for testing the antimicrobial activity of TiO2
photocatalyst products have been pointed out.[Projekat Ministarstva nauke
Republike Srbije, br. III45008]
Citation
ID:
182001
Ref Key:
l.2014actatesting