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 …

Infection microenvironment-related antibacterial nanotherapeutic strategies

Z Wang, X Liu, Y Duan, Y Huang - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges in public
health. There is an urgent need to discover novel agents against the occurrence of multidrug …

Nano-based drug delivery or targeting to eradicate bacteria for infection mitigation: a review of recent advances

YC Yeh, TH Huang, SC Yang, CC Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pathogenic bacteria infection is a major public health problem due to the high morbidity and
mortality rates, as well as the increased expenditure on patient management. Although there …

Micromotor-enabled active drug delivery for in vivo treatment of stomach infection

BEF de Ávila, P Angsantikul, J Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Advances in bioinspired design principles and nanomaterials have led to tremendous
progress in autonomously moving synthetic nano/micromotors with diverse functionalities in …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetite nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis, treatment, and treatment monitoring: recent advances

RA Revia, M Zhang - Materials today, 2016 - Elsevier
The development of nanoparticles (NPs) for use in all facets of oncological disease
detection and therapy has shown great progress over the past two decades. NPs have been …

Antibacterial properties of nanoparticles

MJ Hajipour, KM Fromm, AA Ashkarran… - Trends in …, 2012 - cell.com
Antibacterial agents are very important in the textile industry, water disinfection, medicine,
and food packaging. Organic compounds used for disinfection have some disadvantages …

Current applications of nanoparticles in infectious diseases

H Zazo, CI Colino, JM Lanao - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
For decades infections have been treated easily with drugs. However, in the 21st century,
they may become lethal again owing to the development of antimicrobial resistance …

Antimicrobial metal-based nanoparticles: A review on their synthesis, types and antimicrobial action

MG Correa, FB Martínez, CP Vidal… - Beilstein journal of …, 2020 - beilstein-journals.org
The investigation of novel nanoparticles with antimicrobial activity has grown in recent years
due to the increased incidence of nosocomial infections occurring during hospitalization and …

Bifunctionalized mesoporous silica-supported gold nanoparticles: intrinsic oxidase and peroxidase catalytic activities for antibacterial applications.

Y Tao, E Ju, J Ren, X Qu - Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach …, 2014 - europepmc.org
Bifunctionalized mesoporous silica-supported gold nanoparticles as oxidase and
peroxidase mimics for antibacterial applications are demonstrated. For the first time, these …

Graphene quantum dots-band-aids used for wound disinfection

H Sun, N Gao, K Dong, J Ren, X Qu - ACS nano, 2014 - ACS Publications
Herein, an antibacterial system combining the “safe” carbon nanomaterials, graphene
quantum dots (GQDs), with a low level of H2O2 has been put forward. It has been found that …