eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Material Science Research India 0973-3469 2023-08-30 20 2 137 140 21633 article Sorna Gowri Vijaya Kumar 1 Principal Technical Officer, CSIR-AMPRI and Associate Professor, AcSIR, AMPRI, Hoshangabad Road, Habibaganj Naka Bhopal, M.P, India The antimicrobial cotton fabric has been prepared by coating it with Ag treated with SDS(Sodium dodecyl sulphate) nanocoating and its antimicrobial properties have been tested. It is observed in the present study, that the nanocoating coated cotton fabrics have good antimicrobial properties. The coated cotton fabric showed an antibacterial activity value of 5.86 against Klebsiella pneumonia ATCC 4352 and that of 4.89 against Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 when tested according to the JIS L 1902-2015 method. https://www.materialsciencejournal.org/vol20no2/antimicrobial-activity-of-sds-ag-treated-cotton-fabric/ Antimicrobial Cotton fabric Ag nanocoating Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate(SDS)