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 …

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 …

Surface design for antibacterial materials: from fundamentals to advanced strategies

W Li, ES Thian, M Wang, Z Wang, L Ren - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Healthcare‐acquired infections as well as increasing antimicrobial resistance have become
an urgent global challenge, thus smart alternative solutions are needed to tackle bacterial …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Biomedical polymers: synthesis, properties, and applications

WH Chen, QW Chen, Q Chen, C Cui, S Duan… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Biomedical polymers have been extensively developed for promising applications in a lot of
biomedical fields, such as therapeutic medicine delivery, disease detection and diagnosis …

Stimuli-responsive bio-based polymeric systems and their applications

S Gao, G Tang, D Hua, R Xiong, J Han… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Stimuli-responsive bio-based polymeric systems are gaining considerable attention as
intelligent versatile tools that show great potential in various fields. In this review, an …

Supramolecular antibacterial materials for combatting antibiotic resistance

X Li, H Bai, Y Yang, J Yoon, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotic‐resistant bacteria have emerged as a severe threat to human health. As effective
antibacterial therapies, supramolecular materials display unprecedented advantages …

Responsive and synergistic antibacterial coatings: fighting against bacteria in a smart and effective way

T Wei, Q Yu, H Chen - Advanced healthcare materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antibacterial coatings that eliminate initial bacterial attachment and prevent subsequent
biofilm formation are essential in a number of applications, especially implanted medical …

Versatile antibacterial materials: an emerging arsenal for combatting bacterial pathogens

X Ding, S Duan, X Ding, R Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Antibacterial materials that prevent bacterial infections and mitigate bacterial virulence have
attracted great scientific interests. In recent decades, the bactericidal polymers have been …

Cyclodextrin‐based multistimuli‐responsive supramolecular assemblies and their biological functions

YM Zhang, YH Liu, Y Liu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclodextrins (CDs), which are a class of cyclic oligosaccharides extracted from the
enzymatic degradation of starch, are often utilized in molecular recognition and assembly …