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Distinctive Effects of Surface Roughness and Ions Release on the Bacterial Adhesion and Inactivation of Textured Copper Oxide Surfaces

Sami Rtimi

In this manuscript, we studied the effect of additive manufacturing pretreatment on bacterial adhesion and inactivation on copper-based interfaces. Sandblasting, mirror polishing and Surface Mechanical Attrition Treatment (SMAT) at high or low energies hav ...

MDPI2023

Recent Developments in Accelerated Antibacterial Inactivation on 2D Cu-Titania Surfaces under Indoor Visible Light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi

This review focuses on Cu/TiO2 sequentially sputtered and Cu-TiO2 co-sputtered catalytic/photocatalytic surfaces that lead to bacterial inactivation, discussing their stability, synthesis, adhesion, and antibacterial kinetics. The intervention of TiO2, Cu, ...

Mdpi Ag2017

Innovative and stable TiO2 supported catalytic surfaces removing aldehydes under UV-light irradiation

Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi

The present study reports the photocatalytic degradation of aldehydes using TiO2 impregnated polyester (PES) and glass fiber (GFT)-TiO2 addressing the photocatalytic degradation aldehydes (air-solid interface). The PES-TiO2 optical absorption was determine ...

Elsevier Science Sa2017

Nanostructured NaFeS2 as a cost-effective and robust electrocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution with reduced overpotentials

Sami Rtimi

One of the biggest challenges currently in the field of energy generation and conservation is to develop a stable, scalable and cost-effective electrocatalyst with reduced overpotentials for both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution react ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

Magnetically separable TiO2/FeOx/POM accelerating the photocatalytic removal of the emerging endocrine disruptor: 2,4-dichlorophenol

Sami Rtimi

This study presents the magnetically separable TiO2/FeOx microstructure decorated with poly-oxo-tungstate (POM) leading to the endocrine disruptor 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) under low intensity solar light. The fastest 2,4-DCP degradation kinetics was ob ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Assessment of the correlation among antibiotic resistance, adherence to abiotic and biotic surfaces, invasion and cytotoxicity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from diseased gilthead sea bream

Sami Rtimi

Improper uses of antibiotics to treat fish disease pose an increase of multidrug resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In order to escape host antimicrobial agents and induce cytotoxicity, different virulence properties are needed by these bacteria such as ...

Elsevier2017

Dynamics of VOCs degradation and bacterial inactivation at the interface of AgxO/Ag/TiO2 prepared by HiPIMS under indoor light

Sami Rtimi

AgxO/Ag/TiO2 photoactive thin films were produced by different modes of magnetron sputtering (namely, DCMS and HiPIMS). The spectral and microstructural properties of the Ag-AgxO/TiO2 thin films were studied by Diffuse Reflection Spectroscopy (DRS) and X-r ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Innovative TiO2/Cu Nanosurfaces Inactivating Bacteria in the Minute Range under Low-Intensity Actinic Light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

The bacterial inactivation of E. coli by cotton TiO2/Cu DC-magnetron sputtered thin films was investigated in the dark and under low-intensity actinic light. The TiO2/Cu sputtered layers revealed to be sensitive to actinic light showing the spectral charac ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Quantification of the local magnetized nanotube domains accelerating the photocatalytic removal of the emerging pollutant tetracycline

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Ivica Zivkovic

( )Evidence is presented for the enhanced photodegradation of tetracycline (TC) by AgxO/FeOx/ZnO nanotubes (NTs) compared to AgxO/ZnO nanotubes under low-intensity solar light irradiation. A higher amount of the local magnetic domains with random orientati ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Biological responses at the interface of Ti-doped diamond-like carbon surfaces for indoor environment application

Sami Rtimi

Diamond-like carbon (DLC) and titanium-doped DLC coatings were prepared by hybrid PECVD/direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS). In this study, we show that the operating conditions of titanium-doped DLC coatings used for implants in surgical devices si ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Emerging technologies for the recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from the end-of-life electronic wastes: a review on progress, challenges, and perspectives

Sami Rtimi

The demand for rare earth elements (REEs) has significantly increased due to their indispensable uses in integrated circuits of modern technology. However, due to the extensive use of high-tech applications in our daily life and the depletion of their prim ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Mechanisms and adsorption capacities of biochar for the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from industrial wastewater

Sami Rtimi

Currently, due to the rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization in developing countries, a large volume of wastewater is produced from industries that contain chemicals generating high environmental risks affecting human health and the economy if ...

2021

Reactive species monitoring and their contribution for removal of textile effluent with photocatalysis under UV and visible lights: Dynamics and mechanism

Sami Rtimi

In this study, the photocatalytic activities were investigated for the treatment of Reactive Green 12 (RG 12) solution under UV and visible irradiation using Cu doped TiO2, and TiO2 impregnated on (1) cellulose and (2) UV-C activated polyester catalysts. T ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2018

Novel FeOx–polyethylene transparent films: synthesis and mechanism of surface regeneration

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

The first evidence for the synthesis of a uniform, adhesive polyethylene–FeOx (PE–FeOx) surface leading efficiently to bacterial inactivation is addressed in this study. PE was loaded with 0.04–0.08% Fe wt/wt PE after RF-plasma pretreatment was required to ...

RSC Publishing2015

ZrNO-Ag co-sputtered surfaces leading to E. coli inactivation under actinic light: Evidence for the oligodynamic effect

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines, Michaël Bensimon, Mirela Pascu

This study reports visible light sensitive ZrNO and ZrNO-Ag polyester samples prepared by sputtering in an Ar/N-2/O-2 atmosphere leading to Escherichia coil bacterial inactivation. The bacterial inactivation by ZrNO avoids the increasing environmental conc ...

Elsevier2013

Effect of Mo addition on the mechanical and tribological properties of magnetron sputtered TiN films

Sami Rtimi

Ternary-based titanium nitride (TiN) thin films have drawn attention toward rational applications due to their wear resistance, high hardness, and corrosion resistance. The influence of Mo content on the structural, tribo-logical, and mechanical properties ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Innovative transparent non-scattering TiO2 bactericide thin films inducing increased E. coli cell wall fluidity

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Lioubov Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Andrzej Kulik, Rosendo Sanjines, Mariusz Andrzejczuk

This study presents the first account for transparent, non-scattering TiO2 films on radio-frequency (RF) plasma and ultraviolet light in the C-spectral region (UVC) pretreated polyethylene (PE). These pretreatments allow the PE to bind higher amounts of Ti ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Effect of light and oxygen on repetitive bacterial inactivation on uniform, adhesive, robust and stable Cu-polyester surfaces

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines

This study reports new findings on the sputtered Cu-polyester (Cu-PES) bacterial inactivation under low intensity visible light (lambda > 400 nm). Cu-PES samples sputtered for 160 s led to the complete inactivation of E. coli in anaerobic and aerobic media ...

De Gruyter Mouton2017

Ultra-high color rendering warm-white light-emitting diodes based on an efficient green-emitting garnet phosphor for solid-state lighting

Sami Rtimi

High light-quality and low color temperature are two crucial factors for a comfortable healthy illumination. Phosphor-converted white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) could be readily realized by combining near-UV (380-420 nm) LED chips with tri-color phosphor ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2021

New evidence for TiO2 uniform surfaces leading to complete bacterial reduction in the dark: Critical issues

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Danièle Laub

This study presents new evidence for the events leading to Escherichia coil reduction in the absence of light irradiation on TiO2-polyester (from now on TiO2-PES. By transmission electron microscopy (TEM) the diffusion of TiO2 NP's aggregates with the E. c ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014