Hi, Members of the List. The "CS website" that disparages low-level PPMs and extolls high-level PPMs with mild protein stabilization overlooks one of the earliest discoveries about the nature of CS: oligodynamism.
Nageli is credited with discovering this remarkable property of CS in the 1890s, though other substances were known to have it. One possible explanation for this "less is beautiful" phenomenon is that silver particulates exert an inhibitory effect on each other. So they need enough space to be active and/or stable.Does anybody know of any chemical theory or other further explanation of oligodynamism? Best wishes, Matthew
