Antibacterial nanomaterials: mechanisms, impacts on antimicrobial resistance and design principles

M Xie, M Gao, Y Yun, M Malmsten… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to the environment and health.
AMR rapidly invalidates conventional antibiotics, and antimicrobial nanomaterials have …

Synergistic antibacterial strategy based on photodynamic therapy: Progress and perspectives

X Hu, H Zhang, Y Wang, BC Shiu, JH Lin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dramatic increase in drug resistant bacteria resistance to existing conventional
antibiotics poses a great challenge to the effective treatment of infectious diseases …

Applications of green synthesized metal nanoparticles—a review

S Vijayaram, H Razafindralambo, YZ Sun… - … Trace Element Research, 2024 - Springer
Green nanotechnology is an emerging field of science that focuses on the production of
nanoparticles by living cells through biological pathways. This topic plays an extremely …

Freeze/thawed polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels: Present, past and future

H Adelnia, R Ensandoost, SS Moonshi… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) hydrogels prepared by the
freezing/thawing (FT) process is presented. We discuss their preparation, gelation …

Nanomaterials and nanotechnology for the delivery of agrochemicals: strategies towards sustainable agriculture

C An, C Sun, N Li, B Huang, J Jiang, Y Shen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Nanomaterials (NMs) have received considerable attention in the field of agrochemicals due
to their special properties, such as small particle size, surface structure, solubility and …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis, applications, toxicity and toxicity mechanisms of silver nanoparticles: A review

P Nie, Y Zhao, H Xu - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have become one of the most popular objects of study for the
past few decades. The ability to design AgNPs through different synthetic methods …

A mini review of antibacterial properties of ZnO nanoparticles

SV Gudkov, DE Burmistrov, DA Serov… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The development of antibiotic resistance of bacteria is one of the most pressing problems in
world health care. One of the promising ways to overcome microbial resistance to antibiotics …

Multifunctional AIE nanosphere-based “nanobomb” for trimodal imaging-guided photothermal/photodynamic/pharmacological therapy of drug-resistant bacterial …

B Li, W Wang, L Zhao, D Yan, X Li, Q Gao, J Zheng… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Injudicious or inappropriate use of antibiotics has led to the prevalence of drug-resistant
bacteria, posing a huge menace to global health. Here, a self-assembled aggregation …

Recent advances and mechanistic insights into antibacterial activity, antibiofilm activity, and cytotoxicity of silver nanoparticles

N Tripathi, MK Goshisht - ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
The substantial increase in multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogenic bacteria is a major threat
to global health. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported …

Ultrasmall coinage metal nanoclusters as promising theranostic probes for biomedical applications

G Yang, Z Wang, F Du, F Jiang, X Yuan… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ultrasmall coinage metal nanoclusters (NCs,< 3 nm) have emerged as a novel class of
theranostic probes due to their atomically precise size and engineered physicochemical …