Antibacterial and antiviral functional materials: chemistry and biological activity toward tackling COVID-19-like pandemics

B Balasubramaniam, Prateek, S Ranjan… - ACS Pharmacology & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ongoing worldwide pandemic due to COVID-19 has created awareness toward
ensuring best practices to avoid the spread of microorganisms. In this regard, the research …

A review of removal of pollutants from water/wastewater using different types of nanomaterials

MT Amin, AA Alazba, U Manzoor - Advances in materials …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly increasing population, depleting water resources, and climate change resulting
in prolonged droughts and floods have rendered drinking water a competitive resource in …

Noble metals-TiO2 nanocomposites: from fundamental mechanisms to photocatalysis, surface enhanced Raman scattering and antibacterial applications

J Prakash, S Sun, HC Swart, RK Gupta - Applied Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Plasmonic photocatalyst nanomaterials are rapidly emerging as novel materials for a
number of advanced engineering applications. In the present review article, we aim to …

Advanced nanoarchitectures for solar photocatalytic applications

A Kubacka, M Fernandez-Garcia, G Colon - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
1.1. Scope of the Review Since they were first described in the scientific literature,
photoinduced processes have been studied with a view to developing several industrially …

Polymeric materials with antimicrobial activity

A Muñoz-Bonilla, M Fernández-García - Progress in Polymer Science, 2012 - Elsevier
This article describes the state of the art in the field of antimicrobial polymeric systems during
the last decade. Keeping in mind the multitude of existing systems, a classification of the …

Understanding the antimicrobial mechanism of TiO2-based nanocomposite films in a pathogenic bacterium

A Kubacka, MS Diez, D Rojo, R Bargiela, S Ciordia… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract Titania (TiO2)-based nanocomposites subjected to light excitation are remarkably
effective in eliciting microbial death. However, the mechanism by which these materials …

Recent development of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)-based materials for antibacterial applications: a review

S Ladhari, NN Vu, C Boisvert, A Saidi… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The diseases caused by microorganisms are innumerable existing on this planet.
Nevertheless, increasing antimicrobial resistance has become an urgent global challenge …

A review of the mechanisms and modeling of photocatalytic disinfection

OK Dalrymple, E Stefanakos, MA Trotz… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper is a review of the fundamental disinfection mechanisms of photocatalysis and the
models used to fit the disinfection process. Photocatalysis is an attractive technology for …

Poly (methyl methacrylate) with TiO2 nanoparticles inclusion for stereolitographic complete denture manufacturing− the fututre in dental care for elderly edentulous …

EE Totu, AC Nechifor, G Nechifor, HY Aboul-Enein… - Journal of dentistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives The aim of this study was to obtain a Poly (methylmethacrylate)(PMMA)-TiO 2
nanocomposite material with improved antibacterial characteristics, suitable for …

Behavior of PMMA denture base materials containing titanium dioxide nanoparticles: A literature review

MM Gad, R Abualsaud - International journal of biomaterials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2NP) have gained interest in the dental field because of
their multiple uses in addition to their antimicrobial effect. One of the applications in dentistry …