Multifunctional antimicrobial materials: From rational design to biomedical applications

S Duan, R Wu, YH Xiong, HM Ren, C Lei… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Though the history of mankind, we are strongly fighting with infected diseases that are
induced by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other pathogens. Although a variety of medicines …

Antimicrobial nanomaterials and coatings: Current mechanisms and future perspectives to control the spread of viruses including SARS-CoV-2

SM Imani, L Ladouceur, T Marshall, R Maclachlan… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The global COVID-19 pandemic has attracted considerable attention toward innovative
methods and technologies for suppressing the spread of viruses. Transmission via …

Biomedical polymers: synthesis, properties, and applications

WH Chen, QW Chen, Q Chen, C Cui, S Duan… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …

Nanotechnology responses to COVID‐19

E Ruiz‐Hitzky, M Darder, B Wicklein… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers, engineers, and medical doctors are made aware of the severity of the COVID‐
19 infection and act quickly against the coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 using a large variety of …

Antiviral nanoparticles for sanitizing surfaces: A roadmap to self-sterilizing against COVID-19

N Lin, D Verma, N Saini, R Arbi, M Munir, M Jovic… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles provide new opportunities in merging therapeutics and new materials, with
current research efforts just beginning to scratch the surface of their diverse benefits and …

[HTML][HTML] Passive antifouling and active self-disinfecting antiviral surfaces

O Lishchynskyi, Y Shymborska, Y Stetsyshyn… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Viruses pose a serious threat to human health and society in general, as virus infections are
one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality. Till May 2022, over 513 million people …

Face masks and nanotechnology: Keep the blue side up

V Palmieri, F De Maio, M De Spirito, M Papi - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st
century. While researchers are working on vaccine development and elucidating the …

[HTML][HTML] Resilient and agile engineering solutions to address societal challenges such as coronavirus pandemic

S Goel, S Hawi, G Goel, VK Thakur, A Agrawal… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
The world is witnessing tumultuous times as major economic powers including the US, UK,
Russia, India, and most of Europe continue to be in a state of lockdown. The worst-hit …

A novel vision of reinforcing nanofibrous masks with metal nanoparticles: antiviral mechanisms investigation

F Hadinejad, H Morad, M Jahanshahi, A Zarrabi… - Advanced Fiber …, 2023 - Springer
Prevention of spreading viral respiratory disease, especially in case of a pandemic such as
coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), has been proved impossible without considering …

Chemical design principles of next-generation antiviral surface coatings

N Wang, AR Ferhan, BK Yoon, JA Jackman… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated efforts to
develop high-performance antiviral surface coatings while highlighting the need to build a …