Week Eight- More Searching

Article #1

a. Database- ASC Publications. Subject- Chemistry and Physics

b. Citation-

Maleki, H., Rai, A., Pinto, S., Evangelista, M., Cardoso, R. M., Paulo, C., & Durães, L. (2016). High Antimicrobial Activity and Low Human Cell Cytotoxicity of Core–Shell Magnetic Nanoparticles Functionalized with an Antimicrobial Peptide. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 8(18), 11366-11378.

c. Chemistry is related to my topic because the nanoparticles I am interested in are made from either organic or inorganic compounds. ASC Publications will provide the in depth mechanisms for how these chemicals form nanoparticles and their effectiveness as antimicrobial agents.

Article #2

a. Database- Medline/PubMed. Subject-

b. Citation-

Cremonini, E., Zonaro, E., Donini, M., Lampis, S., Boaretti, M., Dusi, S., & Vallini, G. (2016). Biogenic selenium nanoparticles: characterization, antimicrobial activity and effects on human dendritic cells and fibroblasts. Microbial Biotechnology, 9(6), 758-771.

c. PubMed will be a good database to find studies that test different types of nanoparticles in live cells.

Article #3

a. Database- BIOSIS. Subject- Biology and biomedicine

b. Citation

Beeler, E., & Singh, O. V. (2016). Extremophiles as sources of inorganic bio-nanoparticles. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 32(9), 156.

c. The BIOSIS database will help me find sources that apply nanotechnology to medicine and biological systems.   

Reflection: At first I thought it would not be too useful for me to search different subject-specific databases compared to the multidisciplinary databases like Academic Search Complete. But after looking into different databases I found many interesting perspectives on my topic and some really good sources that will provide my researcher paper with insightful perspectives. For example, article #3 surprised me because it incorporates my first research topic idea with my current research questions, which was really cool.