Photoreforming of waste polymers for sustainable hydrogen fuel and chemicals feedstock: waste to energy

M Ashraf, N Ullah, I Khan, W Tremel, S Ahmad… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

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 …

Recent developments and practical feasibility of polymer‐based antifouling coatings

AMC Maan, AH Hofman, WM de Vos… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While nature has optimized its antifouling strategies over millions of years, synthetic
antifouling coatings have not yet reached technological maturity. For an antifouling coating …

Nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics (nanozymes): next-generation artificial enzymes (II)

J Wu, X Wang, Q Wang, Z Lou, S Li, Y Zhu… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanozymes are nanomaterials with enzyme-like characteristics (Chem. Soc. Rev., 2013, 42,
6060–6093). They have been developed to address the limitations of natural enzymes and …

Insight into nanozymes for their environmental applications as antimicrobial and antifouling agents: Progress, challenges and prospects

G Fang, R Kang, S Cai, C Ge - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic-resistant genes have becoming one of major
environmental pollutants, which lead to the increased potential risk to human health and …

ROS‐catalytic transition‐metal‐based enzymatic nanoagents for tumor and bacterial eradication

L Li, L Cao, X Xiang, X Wu, L Ma… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The extensive research into developing new nanomedicines during the past few years has
witnessed significant progress in diverse biomedical fields, especially for combating drug …

Chiral nanozymes for enantioselective biological catalysis

K Dong, C Xu, J Ren, X Qu - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As a neat combination of the characteristics of enzymatic activity and nanomaterials,
nanozymes have attracted much attention. Although tremendous effort has been devoted to …

Single copper atom photocatalyst powers an integrated catalytic cascade for drug-resistant bacteria elimination

F Wu, J Ma, Y Wang, L Xie, X Yan, L Shi, Y Li, Y Liu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
To address the issue posed by drug-resistant bacteria and inspired by natural antimicrobial
enzymes, we report the atomically doped copper on guanine-derived nanosheets (G–Cu) …

Construction of nanozyme‐hydrogel for enhanced capture and elimination of bacteria

Y Sang, W Li, H Liu, L Zhang, H Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The widespread multidrug resistance resulting from the abuse of antibiotics motivates
researchers to explore alternative methods to treat bacterial infections. Recently, the …

A series of MOF/Ce-based nanozymes with dual enzyme-like activity disrupting biofilms and hindering recolonization of bacteria

Z Liu, F Wang, J Ren, X Qu - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Notorious bacterial biofilms are becoming severe threats to public health worldwide. As the
important component in biofilm extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), extracellular DNA …