Facile preparation of raspberry-like PS/ZnO composite particles and their antibacterial properties

Nanocomposite materials containing zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have demonstrated to be very useful in medical, cosmetic and food industries because of their excellent antibacterial properties. Herein, a facile method are reported for the assembling of ZnO NPs onto the polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) stabilized polystyrene (PS) microspheres to form raspberry-like PS/ZnO composite particles. ZnO NPs is directly obtained by adding the base...