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Science and Technology Indonesia
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Vol. 8, No. 3, July 2023

Research Paper

Synthesis, Characterization of Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film, and its Effect as
an Antibacterial Agent of Escherichia coli
Ahmad Fatoni1*, Agnes Rendowati1, Lasmaryna Sirumapea1, Lidya Miranti1, Siti Masitoh2, Nurlisa Hidayati3
1Bhakti Pertiwi High School of Pharmacy Science, Palembang, South Sumatera, 30128, Indonesia2Undergraduate School of Bhakti Pertiwi High School of Pharmacy Science, Palembang, South Sumatera, 30128, Indonesia3Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Sciences, Sriwijaya University, Indralaya, Ogan Ilir, South Sumatera, 30862, Indonesia
*Corresponding author: ahfatoni@yahoo.com

AbstractThe film of chitosan- ZnO/CuO nanoparticles was synthesized. This study were the synthesis and characterization of the chitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film and its effect as an antibacterial of Escherichia coli. The ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO were biosynthesized bybiological method and for the synthesis of the chitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film, the casting method was adopted. The productwas analyzed by FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), respectively. The product ofchitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film as paper disk and agar disk diffusion method was selected to study an antibacterial agent ofthis product. The Zn-O or Cu-O group was observed at a peak between 468-675 cm−1 for ZnO and 503 and 619 cm−1 for CuOnanoparticles, respectively. ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles are in the crystalline form and it has a crystallite size of 13.21, 13.21,and 11.49 nm respectively. After interacting with chitosan, the metal nanoparticles such as ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticlescan change the crystalline form of chitosan to be amorphous form. The addition of ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles in thechitosan will change the surface morphology of chitosan. Chitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film can inhibit the growth of Escherichia
coli bacteria.
KeywordsChitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film, Characterization, Escherichia coli

Received: 31 October 2022, Accepted: 30 May 2023
https://doi.org/10.26554/sti.2023.8.3.373-381

1. INTRODUCTION

The method for synthesis of ZnO/CuO can be done by chem-
ical (Das and Srivastava, 2017; Goyal et al., 2021; Shinde
et al., 2022; Saravanakkumar et al., 2018; Alzahrani, 2018;
Jayaramudu et al., 2019) and not chemical method such as a
biological method (Fouda et al., 2020; Adeyemi et al., 2022;
Cao et al., 2021). The major synthesis of metal nanoparticles is
divided into three methods: physical, chemical, and biological
methods (Naveed Ul Haq et al., 2017) . Metal nanoparticles
such as CuO and ZnO nanoparticles can be synthesized by
chemical (Asamoah et al., 2020) , biological (Mohamed, 2020;
Jan et al., 2021), and physical methods (Gondal et al., 2013;
Al-Dahash et al., 2018). Bloch et al. (2021) reported that the
advantages of the synthesis of metal nanoparticles by the phys-
ical, chemical, and biological methods are that toxic chemicals
are not used, high product, and easy, respectively. But the
disadvantages are the expensive instrumentation, toxic chem-
icals, and difficulty to control the size of metal nanoparticles
in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles by physical, chemical,

and biological methods, respectively. On other hand, the re-
searchers have chosen a biological method than a physical and
chemical method. A cheap method is a base in the synthesis of
metal nanoparticles by biological method (Pantidos and Hors-
fall, 2014) . The effect of pH, the concentration of reactant,
reaction time, and temperature are a challenge in this method
(Zhang et al., 2020) .

The researchers made a combination between metal ox-
ide nanoparticles 1 and metal oxide nanoparticles 2 such as
ZnO and CuO nanoparticles. This combination aims to in-
crease sensitive biosensors (Solanki et al., 2011; Goyal et al.,
2021), antibacterial (Saravanakkumar et al., 2018) , photocat-
alysts (Fouda et al., 2020) , and cytotoxicity properties (Cao
et al., 2021) .

Chitosan can be formed in film form. The flexibility of
chitosan film is an advantage of chitosan film (Estevam et al.,
2012) but in the film form, chitosan can’t inhibit the growth
of bacterial (Foster and Butt, 2011) .To increase the charac-
ter of chitosan film, the researchers are using inorganic metal
oxide (ZnO nanoparticles) to form chitosan-ZnO nanocom-

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posite film as an antibacterial agent (Rahman et al., 2018)
and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles to form chitosan-ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles film for photodegradation and solar irradiation
(Alzahrani, 2018) . In this study, the first, the ZnO, CuO, and
ZnO/CuO nanoparticles were biosynthesized by biological
method and it is different from previous literature (Alzahrani,
2018; Jayaramudu et al., 2019). The second, the ZnO, CuO,
and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles are used as modifier agents for
chitosan respectively and all of the products are in the film
form. All films are prepared by casting method. The charac-
terization of this film with Fourier Transforms Infrared Spec-
troscopy (FTIR), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and
X-ray Diffraction (XRD). Application of all the films is as an-
tibacterial of Escherichia coli with the agar diffusion method.

2. EXPERIMENTAL SECTION

2.1 Materials and Instruments
Chitosan with DD 87% (CV. Ocean Fresh Bandung, West Java,
Indonesia). Zinc acetate pentahydrate (Merck), copper sulphate
pentahydrate (Merck), sodium hydroxide (Merck), nutrient agar
(Merck), and acetic acid glacial (Merck). We use microorgan-
isms (Escherichia coli) from our laboratory, including aquadest.
Guava seed (Psidium guajava L.) leaves from Palembang. FTIR
Spectrophotometer (Shimadzu Prestige-21), Scanning Elec-
tron Microscopy ( JEOL JSM 6510 LA), X-ray diffraction (Shi-
madzu XRD 6000) and UV-Vis spectroscopy (Genesys 150
Thermo Scientific).

2.2 Ethanolic Extract as Medium in Biosynthesis
This medium was prepared by maceration process and followed
the procedure from Fatimah et al. (2016) with slight modifica-
tion. A dry leaf guava seed (25 g) was soaked in ethanol 70%
(v/v, 250 mL) in a maceration bottle (24 h). After 24 h, the
filtrate was separated and collected in a clean bottle and stored
a room temperature for the further experiment (filtrate I). The
residue was macerated again with 250 mL ethanol 70% (v/v)
(24 h). the mixture was filtered, and the filtrate was collected
and merged with filtrate I. All filtrate was stored at a room
temperature.

2.3 Biosynthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
The procedure of biosynthesis was adopted from Fouda et al.
(2020) with slight modification. The ethanolic extract of guava
seed leaves (75 mL) in a beaker glass 250 mL was added by
the solution of zinc acetate dihydrate (0.2743 g, 25 mL) and
the concentration of zinc acetate pentahydrate was 0.0124
M. This beaker glass was heated on a hot plate at 80°C for
60 minutes with continuous stirring. The 0.1 M of sodium
hydroxide solution (10 mL) was added to this beaker glass with
continuous stirring (pH 10). The mixture was stored for one
night until the precipitation appeared. The filtrate and residue
(ZnO nanoparticles) were separated, and ZnO nanoparticles
were washed with aquadest (15 mL) and absolute ethanol (15
mL). The product of ZnO nanoparticles was dried in the oven

(60°C) until dry. The same procedure was used to biosynthesis
of CuO and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles as seen in Table 1.

2.4 Synthesis of the Film
The synthesis of film A was adopted from Kalia et al. (2021)
with slight modification. Chitosan solution in 250 mL of beaker
glass (0.1 g of chitosan powder and10 mL of acetic acid solution
1% v/v) was added 0.1 g of ZnO nanoparticles and shaken by
continuously stirring (room temperature, 1 h). A polypropy-
lene petri dish with a diameter of 7.4 cm was filled with the
chitosan and ZnO nanoparticle solution and left to dry at room
temperature. Figure 1 depicts the synthesis’s organizational
design. The same procedure was used to prepare the films B,
C, D, and E, which are listed in Table 2.

Figure 1. Synthesis Chitosan-metal Oxide Nanoparticles Film

2.5 Characterization
ZnO, CuO and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles were analyzed by
UV-Vis Spectrometer to obtain their UV-Vis spectra. The
wavelengths ranging from 200 to 550 nm were used to this
analysis. ZnO, CuO, ZnO/CuO nanoparticles, and film A-
E were characterized by their functional groups with FTIR
Spectrophotometer (the region between 4500 and 500 cm−1).
X-ray diffraction is used for physical structure analysis of ZnO,
CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles, film A-E, and calculating
the crystallite size of ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles.
The XRD operational conditions refer to previous literature
(Fatoni et al., 2021) . The surface morphology of chitosan
film, films A, B, and D was characterized by SEM at 15 kV
with various magnifications x 3500 (scale bars = 5 `m) and ×
10000 (scale bars = 5 `m).

2.6 The Antibacterial Procedure of the Film Chitosan-metal
Oxide Nanoparticles

Three petri plates were used in this study. The agar disc diffu-
sion method was used for the identification of chitosan-metal

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Table 1. The Materials in the Biosynthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

The Ethanolic
Extract of Guava

Seed Leaves (mL)

Zinc Acetate
Pentahydrate (g)

Copper Sulphate
Pentahydrate (g)

Aquadest
(mL)

Sodium
Hydroxide

Solution (M,
mL)

The Name of
Product

75 0.2743 - 25 0.1, 10 ZnO Nanoparticles
75 - 0.9363 25 0.1, 13 CuO Nanoparticles

75 0.2743 0.9363 25 0.1, 13
ZnO/CuO

Nanoparticles

Table 2. Compares the Use of Nanoparticles of Chitosan, ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO in the Synthesis of All Films

Film
The Comparison between Chitosan and ZnO, CuO and ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles
Chitosan (g) Mass (g) of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

A 0.1 0.1 (ZnO Nanoparticles)
B 0.1 0.1 (CuO Nanoparticles)
C 0.1 0.1 (ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles)
D 0.1 0.2 (ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles)
E 0.2 0.1 (ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles)

oxide nanoparticles film as an antibacterial agent and the an-
tibacterial procedure was adopted from Fatoni et al. (2022) .
The procedure from Isnaeni et al. (2020) was used to prepare
the inoculum of the bacterial suspension. The film (1 cm ×
1 cm) was pasted in the second layer of nutrient agar. The
second layer of nutrient agar contained the bacterial suspension.
The Petri plate was incubated at 37°C for 24 h. The diameter
of the inhibition zone was measured after 24 h.

3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

3.1 Biosynthesis Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
The process of biosynthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles was
illustrated as seen in Figure 2. The materials were used in
the biosynthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles such as ethanolic
extract of guava seed leaves, zinc acetate dihydrate, copper sul-
phate pentahydrate, and sodium hydroxide solution. Ethanolic
extract of guava seed leaves are containing active biomolecules:
vitamins, tannin, alkaloids, carbohydrates, steroids, glycosides,
and flavonoids (Joseph et al., 2016) . The biomolecules were
activated at pH 10 and this pH, the biomolecules will increase
them as a capping and stabilizing agent because of its ability
to change the electrical charges of biomolecules (Khalil et al.,
2014) .

The product of biosynthesis ZnO, CuO and ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles as seen in Figure 3. The product of the film as
shown in Figure 4.

3.2 UV-Vis Spectroscopy Analysis
The optical properties and electronic structure of metal nanopar-
ticles were analyzed by UV–Vis spectroscopy such as the absorp-
tion peaks (Dobrucka et al., 2019) . Surface plasmon absorp-
tion (SPA) causes absorption peaks (Rajendrachari et al., 2021) .
The biosynthesis of ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles

Figure 2. Biosynthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

Figure 3. Documentation Picture of ZnO, CuO, and
ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles in (a), (b), and (c), Respectively

were analyzed by UV-Vis spectroscopy and shown in Figure
5. In Figure 5, the specific UV absorbance for ZnO, CuO, and
ZnO/CuO nanoparticles at 250, 272 and 270 wavelengths
respectively. The wavelength at 250 nm for ZnO nanoparti-
cles. This peak is lower than 300 nm and as per the previous
literature (Dobrucka and Długaszewska, 2016) . The peak at
272 nm for CuO nanoparticles is still below the results of

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Table 3. The Inhibition Zone of All Films

Film The Film of:
The Inhibition Zone (mm)

Petri Plate 1 Petri Plate 2 Petri Plate 3 Average ± SD
A Chitosan-ZnO Nanoparticles 26.36 25.87 25.93 26.03 ± 0.21
B Chitosan-CuO Nanoparticles 19.48 19.52 17.63 18.87 ± 0.88
C Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles (Type A) 22.99 20.69 23.53 22.40 ± 1.23
D Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles (Type B) 26.25 26.98 27.70 26.97 ± 1.53
E Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles (Type C) 19.38 18.49 19.38 19.08 ± 0.41
F Chitosan - - - -

Figure 4. The Photograph of Chitosan Film (a), Chitosan-CuO Nanoparticles Film (b, Film B) and Chitosan-ZnO Nanoparticles
Film (c, Film A), Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (d, Film C), Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (e, Film E) and
Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (f, Film D)

research by Bhavyasree and Xavier (2020) . There is a tran-
sition of electrons from the valence band to the conduction
band of CuO even with a weak absorption band. The peak for
ZnO/CuO nanoparticles at 270 nm is a similar peak to the
study of Asamoah et al. (2020) . In this peak, the transition
from the 2p of oxygen to the 4s of Cu2+ was observed.

Figure 5. Profile of UV-Vis Spectra ZnO, CuO, and
ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles

3.3 Functional Group Analysis
The FTIR spectra of ZnO, CuO and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles
as seen in Figure 6.

The interpretation of spectra in Figure 6 shows, the band
region at 3423-3448 cm−1 can be noted to stretching vibration
of O-H and N-H from a secondary metabolite as a bioactive

Figure 6. FTIR Spectra of CuO Nanoparticles, ZnO
Nanoparticles and ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles

compound (Matinise et al., 2017) . The band at 929-1620
cm−1 is due to C=C, C=N, and C=O (Matinise et al., 2017) .
The characteristic of metal oxides has an absorption band below
1000 cm−1 because of interatomic vibration (Matinise et al.,
2017) . The peak at 503 and 619 cm−1 is the stretching vi-
bration of the Cu-O (Hemalatha and Makeswari, 2017; Berra
et al., 2018; Altikatoglu et al., 2017). The Zn-O (stretching vi-
bration) shows at 468-675 cm−1 (Dobrucka and Długaszewska,
2016; Jan et al., 2021; Mydeen et al., 2020) and a stretching vi-
bration of Zn-O/Cu-O observed at 497 and 619 cm−1 (Fouda
et al., 2020) .

The FTIR spectra of chitosan film, film A and B as displayed
in Figure 7 and film C, D, and E as seen in Figure 8.

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Figure 7. FTIR Spectrum of Chitosan Film, Chitosan-ZnO
Nanoparticles Film (Film A) and CuO Nanoparticles Film
(Film B)

Figure 8. FTIR Spectra of Film C, D and E

Chitosan film (Figure 7) showed bands at 3448 cm−1, 2920
cm−1, 1656 cm−1, and 1595 cm−1, which were investigated to
the O-H/N-H stretching, C-H stretching, amide-I, and amide-
II groups, respectively (Krishnan et al., 2020) . In Figure 7 and
8, the FTIR spectra of film A-E has a characteristic band be-
tween 3273 and 3446 cm−1 and show the overlap of stretching
vibration of –NH and –OH groups. All these bands are lower
than a band of stretching vibration of –NH and –OH groups
chitosan film (3448 cm−1). The peaks at amide-I of chitosan-
ZnO nanoparticles film and chitosan-CuO nanoparticles film
shifted to lower wavenumber (1656 to 1574- 1614 cm−1). The
decrease in wavenumber shows the interaction of –NH, –OH,
and amide-I groups of chitosan with ZnO or CuO through a
hydrogen bond (Prokhorov et al., 2020) .

3.4 Analysis of Physical Structure
The analysis of physical structure of ZnO, CuO and ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles as seen in Figure 9.

Figure 9. Diffractogram of ZnO Nanoparticles, CuO
Nanoparticles and ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles

Figure 10. Diffractogram of Chitosan Film,
Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (Film C),
Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (Film D) and
Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (Film E)

The peaks observed at 2\ = 13.95°, 16. 42°, 33.5°, and
59.54° (Figure 9, ZnO nanoparticles). These peaks showed a
crystalline form for ZnO nanoparticles (Sharmila et al., 2018;
Kalpana et al., 2018). In Figure 9 (CuO nanoparticles), the
sharp peak at 2\ ≈ 32.21° is a crystalline form for CuO nanopar-
ticles (Murthy et al., 2021) . The diffractogram ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles has peaks at 2\ values of 32.31°, 34.40° and
60.23°. These peaks are the peaks of CuO nanoparticles (Murthy
et al., 2021) . The difference between diffractogram of CuO
nanoparticles and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles is the presence
of ZnO nanoparticles peaks in diffractogram of ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles.

The crystallite size of the biosynthesized ZnO, CuO, and
ZnO/CuO nanoparticles was calculated by a Debye Scherrer’s

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Figure 11. Surface Morphology of Chitosan Film (a), Chitosan-CuO Nanoparticles Film (b), Chitosan-ZnO Nanoparticles Film (c)
and Chitosan-ZnO/CuO Nanoparticles Film (d, Film D)

Figure 12. The Antibacterial Study of Film A, B, C, D, E and F
(Chitosan Film as Control)

formula (Chinnathambi and Alahmadi, 2021) .

D =
0.9._
𝛽 .cos\

Where D, _ , 𝛽 and \ are the crystallite size, the wavelength, the
full width at half maximum (FWHM) and Bragg’s angle respec-
tively. The crystallite size of the biosynthesized ZnO, CuO,
and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles were estimated 13.21, 13.21 and
11.49 nm respectively.

The physical structure of chitosan film, chitosan-ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles film, chitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film, and
chitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film as seen in Figure 10.

The XRD pattern of chitosan film (Figure 10) shows the
peak at 2\ ≈ 14.3° and 20.6°. These peaks are in hydrate crys-
talline form (Prokhorov et al., 2020) . The peaks that appeared
in the chitosan-ZnO/CuO nanoparticles film (film C, Figure
10) have 2\ ≈ 12.44°, 15.17°, 24.70° and 64.00°. The XRD
pattern of film D (Figure 10) shows the peak at 2\ ≈ 24.30°,
31.59°, 37.58°, and 77.10°. Film E (Figure 10) contained 2\
≈ 11.00°, 22.70° and 66°. The peak of 2\ chitosan in films
C and E was detected at 12.44° and 11.00° respectively. This
peak is lower than the peak of film chitosan and showed an
increase in the degree of amorphous form because of the in-
teraction between the N-H and O-H groups in chitosan with
ZnO/CuO nanoparticles (Prokhorov et al., 2020) . The peak
of chitosan in film D was observed at 2\ = 24.30°, Sharma et al.
(2012) reported that the peak at 2\ = 24° was the amorphous
region of the film chitosan. In the film, C, D, and E, the peaks of
ZnO/CuO nanoparticles were observed as reported in previous
study (Sharmila et al., 2018; Logpriya et al., 2018) and showed

that chitosan associated with ZnO and CuO nanoparticles.

3.5 Analysis of Surface Morphology
The scanning electron micrographs for chitosan and modified
chitosan as seen in Figure 11.

The SEM image of a chitosan film (Figure 11(a)) showed
that it had a nonporous surface and irregular form depending
on the degree of acetylation and molecular weight (López-
Mata et al., 2013) . the addition of ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles in chitosan caused morphological differences at
the surfaces of the film (Figure 11(b,c,d)). The interaction
of metal oxide nanoparticles can change the chitosan surface
(Aljuhani et al., 2021) . The surface of chitosan-ZnO/CuO
nanoparticles film is different than chitosan-ZnO nanoparticles
film or chitosan-CuO nanoparticles film because the amount
of Cu2+ ion is higher than Zn2+ ion.

3.6 Antibacterial Study of All Films
The antibacterial study of all films was investigated using the
agar diffusion method. This method is simple, cheap, can be
used to test a high number of microorganisms and antimicrobial
as sample and the ease to explain the results of the data obtained
(Balouiri et al., 2016) . The data can be seen in Figure 12. The
inhibition zone of all films was calculated and tabulated in Table
3.

Table 3 showed the average zone of inhibition of D > A
> C > E > B > F film against Escherichia coli bacteria. The
presence of ZnO or CuO nanoparticles in the A-E films can
increase the antimicrobial properties of the film. The mecha-
nism of the film A-D is the antimicrobial activity as reported
by the previous literature. The existence of pores in the outer
cell wall of Escherichia coli bacteria can accelerate ZnO or CuO
nanoparticles go into the pores (El Fawal et al., 2020) , ZnO
or CuO nanoparticles will release the reactive oxygen species
(ROS) and Zn2+ or Cu2+. Both of them will attack the negative
charge of the bacterial cell wall and its effect, disturbing the syn-
thesis of protein of bacteria (Rahman et al., 2018) . Dananjaya
et al. (2018) as previous researcher concluded that electrostatic
attraction can inhibit the growth of bacteria due to the inter-
action of the positive surface charges of chitosan-metal oxide
nanoparticles and the negative charge of the bacterial cell walls.

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4. CONCLUSION

ZnO, CuO, and ZnO/CuO nanoparticles can be biosynthe-
sized successfully and the third of metal oxide nanoparticles
were used as material in the synthesis of chitosan-metal ox-
ide nanoparticles film. The FTIR spectrum from metal oxide
nanoparticles and all films indicated the functional group and
structure of metal oxide nanoparticles. XRD pattern of metal
oxide nanoparticles and all films indicated the crystalline of
metal oxide nanoparticles and amorphous form respectively.
The surface morphology of the D film is clear than the chitosan
film. The antibacterial activity of D film is higher than A, B, C,
and E.

5. ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We would like to thank STIFI Bhakti Pertiwi for funding this
research. Thank you to Laboratorium Fisika Terpadu ITB for
the morphology surface analysis.

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	INTRODUCTION
	EXPERIMENTAL SECTION
	Materials and Instruments
	Ethanolic Extract as Medium in Biosynthesis
	Biosynthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
	Synthesis of the Film
	Characterization
	The Antibacterial Procedure of the Film Chitosan-metal Oxide Nanoparticles

	RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
	Biosynthesis Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
	UV-Vis Spectroscopy Analysis
	Functional Group Analysis
	Analysis of Physical Structure
	Analysis of Surface Morphology
	Antibacterial Study of All Films

	CONCLUSION
	ACKNOWLEDGMENT