Photocatalytic antimicrobials: principles, design strategies, and applications

B Ran, L Ran, Z Wang, J Liao, D Li, K Chen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nowadays, the increasing emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic microorganisms
requires the search for alternative methods that do not cause drug resistance. Phototherapy …

Emerging trends in nanomaterials for antibacterial applications

S Yougbaré, C Mutalik, G Okoro, IH Lin… - International journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Around the globe, surges of bacterial diseases are causing serious health threats and
related concerns. Recently, the metal ion release and photodynamic and photothermal …

Electrospun nanofibers promote wound healing: Theories, techniques, and perspectives

C Gao, L Zhang, J Wang, M Jin, Q Tang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
At present, the clinical strategies for treating chronic wounds are limited, especially when it
comes to pain relief and rapid wound healing. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop …

Hierarchically structured ternary heterojunctions based on Ce3+/Ce4+ modified Fe3O4 nanoparticles anchored onto graphene oxide sheets as magnetic visible-light …

R Hassandoost, SR Pouran, A Khataee, Y Orooji… - Journal of hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
The main prerequisite of an active visible-light-driven photocatalyst is to effectively utilize the
visible light to induce electron-hole (e−/h+) pairs of expanded lifetime. To this end, for the …

A comprehensive insight into plasma-catalytic removal of antibiotic oxytetracycline based on graphene-TiO2-Fe3O4 nanocomposites

H Guo, Y Wang, X Yao, Y Zhang, Z Li, S Pan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
Non-thermal plasma coupled with graphene-TiO 2-Fe 3 O 4 nanocomposites was applied to
promote oxytetracycline (OTC) degradation in water. Graphene-TiO 2-Fe 3 O 4 …

TiO2-based photocatalytic disinfection of microbes in aqueous media: a review

PVL Reddy, B Kavitha, PAK Reddy, KH Kim - Environmental research, 2017 - Elsevier
The TiO 2 based photocatalyst has great potential for the disinfection/inactivation of harmful
pathogens (such as E. coli in aqueous media) along with its well-known usefulness on …

Defective engineering in graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet for efficient photocatalytic pathogenic bacteria disinfection

H Liu, S Ma, L Shao, H Liu, Q Gao, B Li, H Fu… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, porous defective gC 3 N 4 ultrathin nanosheets were prepared through thermal
condensation of freeze-dried precursor. First-principles density functional theory (DFT) …

[HTML][HTML] TiO2 supported single Ag atoms nanozyme for elimination of SARS-CoV2

D Wang, B Zhang, H Ding, D Liu, J Xiang, XJ Gao… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
The outbreak of SARS-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) has become a global health emergency.
Although enormous efforts have been made, there is still no effective treatment against the …

[HTML][HTML] Two-dimensional nanomaterials beyond graphene for antibacterial applications: current progress and future perspectives

L Mei, S Zhu, W Yin, C Chen, G Nie, Z Gu, Y Zhao - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The marked augment of drug-resistance to traditional antibiotics underlines the crying need
for novel replaceable antibacterials. Research advances have revealed the considerable …

Antibacterial Activity of Graphene Oxide/gC3N4 Composite through Photocatalytic Disinfection under Visible Light

L Sun, T Du, C Hu, J Chen, J Lu, Z Lu… - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Carbon-based nanomaterials have been widely developed into innovative antimicrobial
agents due to their advantages of high surface-to-volume ratio, extremely high mechanical …