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Engineering of Oxygen-Deficient Nano-CeO<sub>2β<i>x</i></sub> with Tunable Biocidal and Antioxidant Activity
Biocidal activity and radical scavenging capacity (RSC),
two seemingly
opposing concepts, can coexist in engineered nanoceria (CeO2) materials. In the present study, a series of CeO2βx (x = 0β0.75) nanoparticles
have been engineered utilizing the anoxic-flame spray pyrolysis (A-FSP)
technology. A-FSP allows for tuning of the physicochemical and structural
properties of CeO2βx arising from
lattice defects (Ce3+ and Vos) while maintaining
minimal carbon incorporation. Our study aimed to understand the complex
relationships between the biocidal and antioxidant activities of CeO2βx, concepts whose origin was not
sufficiently detangled in the bibliography. The biocide profiles of
CeO2βx nanoparticles toward the
marine bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri were studied in tandem with their reactive oxygen species (ROS)
scavenging capacity. A key finding of the present study is that the
A-FSP process allows selective engineering of cluster-type Ce3+ and Vo defects, while typical, nonanoxic nanoceria
structures (code-named ox-CeO2) present mainly monomeric
Ce3+ defects. The type of Ce3+ defects directly
impacts the ROS scavenging efficiency. In addition, structural modifications
that occur from the presence of cluster-type Ce3+ defects,
such as larger particle sizes, are directly associated with lower
biocidal activity. Thus, the findings of this study indicate that
biocidal and ROS antioxidant activities are not mutually exclusive
properties