Chloride-accelerated Cu-Fenton chemistry for biofilm removal

Chloride-accelerated Cu-Fenton chemistry for biofilm removal†

Li Wang,*^a Yanni Miao,^a Mingsheng Lu,^bc Zhi Shan,^b Shan Lu,^a Jiaojiao Hou,^a Qiumei Yang,^a Xinle Liang,^a Tao Zhou,^a Dennis Curry,^b Ken Oakes^b and Xu Zhang

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^a School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China
E-mail: liwang_wh@mail.zjgsu.edu.cn

^b Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy & the Environment, Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
E-mail: xu_zhang@cbu.ca

^c College of Marine Life and Fisheries, Huaihai Institute of Technology, Lianyungang, China

Abstract

Biofilms present challenges to numerous industries. Herein, a simple approach was developed based on chloride-accelerated Fenton chemistry, where copper oxide nanoparticles facilitate efficient generation of reactive chlorine species for biofilm removal.