Improvements in the effectiveness of packaging materials can help to prevent foodborne
pathogens and reduce environmental waste. Traditionally, food is packaged in plastic that is …

At present, there is an urgent need in medicine and industry to develop new approaches to
eliminate bacterial biofilms. Considering the low efficiency of classical approaches to biofilm …

Nanoparticles (NPs) are increasingly used to target bacteria as an alternative to antibiotics.
Nanotechnology may be particularly advantageous in treating bacterial infections. Examples …

Silver nanoparticles are well known potent antimicrobial agents. Although significant
progresses have been achieved on the elucidation of antimicrobial mechanism of silver …

Herein, we provided a novel copper-based polymer-metal–organic framework (polyCu-
MOF) as an efficient scaffold for loading silver nanoparticles (denoted as polyCu-MOF …

Abstract Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO 2 NPs) are one of the most widely used
nanomaterials in the consumer products, agriculture, and energy sectors. Their large …

Biofuels are fast advancing as alternative sources of renewable energy due to their non-
polluting features and cost-competitiveness in comparison to fossil fuels. However, in order …

Green synthesis of nanoparticles is gaining importance and has been suggested as
possible alternatives to chemical and physical methods. The present work reports low-cost …

This contribution critically reviews the state of knowledge on interactions of natural colloids
and engineered nanoparticles with natural dissolved organic materials (DOM). These …

2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …