Disclosing the Biocide Activity of α-AgCuWO (0 ≤ ≤ 0.16) Solid Solutions.

In this work, α-AgCuWO (0 ≤ ≤ 0.16) solid solutions with enhanced antibacterial (against methicillin-resistant ) and antifungal (against ) activities are reported. A plethora of techniques (X-ray diffraction with Rietveld refinements, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, micro-Raman spectroscopy, attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, photoluminescence emissions, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) were employed to characterize the as-synthetized samples and determine the local coordination geometry of Cu cations at the orthorhombic lattice.