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 …

Toward nanotechnology-enabled approaches against the COVID-19 pandemic

C Weiss, M Carriere, L Fusco, I Capua… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The COVID-19 outbreak has fueled a global demand for effective diagnosis and treatment
as well as mitigation of the spread of infection, all through large-scale approaches such as …

Nanotechnology-based antiviral therapeutics

M Chakravarty, A Vora - Drug Delivery and Translational Research, 2021 - Springer
The host immune system is highly compromised in case of viral infections and relapses are
very common. The capacity of the virus to destroy the host cell by liberating its own DNA or …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinspired and green synthesis of nanoparticles from plant extracts with antiviral and antimicrobial properties: A critical review

GA Naikoo, M Mustaqeem, IU Hassan, T Awan… - Journal of Saudi …, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently green synthesis of nanoparticles has attained much interest because of their safe
nature, environmentally benign, ease in manufacturing, and low production cost. It is a …

Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N Xie… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

Antiviral potential of nanoparticles—can nanoparticles fight against coronaviruses?

S Gurunathan, M Qasim, Y Choi, JT Do, C Park… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Infectious diseases account for more than 20% of global mortality and viruses are
responsible for about one-third of these deaths. Highly infectious viral diseases such as …

Nanoparticle-based strategies to combat COVID-19

R Medhi, P Srinoi, N Ngo, HV Tran… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the worst pandemic disease of the current
millennium. This disease is caused by the highly contagious severe acute respiratory …

Can nanotechnology and materials science help the fight against SARS-CoV-2?

MC Sportelli, M Izzi, EA Kukushkina, SI Hossain… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since 2004, we have been developing nanomaterials with antimicrobial properties, the so-
called nanoantimicrobials. When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged, we …

A repertoire of biomedical applications of noble metal nanoparticles

M Azharuddin, GH Zhu, D Das, E Ozgur… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metals comprise any of several metallic chemical elements that are outstandingly
resistant to corrosion and oxidation, even at elevated temperatures. This group is not strictly …