Recent advancements on photothermal conversion and antibacterial applications over MXenes-based materials

S Hao, H Han, Z Yang, M Chen, Y Jiang, G Lu… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Highlights Fabrication, characterizations and photothermal properties of MXenes are
systematically described. Photothermal-derived antibacterial performances and …

Ultrasmall coinage metal nanoclusters as promising theranostic probes for biomedical applications

G Yang, Z Wang, F Du, F Jiang, X Yuan… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ultrasmall coinage metal nanoclusters (NCs,< 3 nm) have emerged as a novel class of
theranostic probes due to their atomically precise size and engineered physicochemical …

Graphitic carbon nitride-based materials for photocatalytic antibacterial application

X Kong, X Liu, Y Zheng, PK Chu, Y Zhang… - Materials Science and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The prevalence of bacterial infections and resistance to existing antibiotics make new
effective antibacterial strategies urgently needed. Photocatalytic antibacterial, an effective …

Two-dimensional antibacterial materials

B Li, Y Luo, Y Zheng, X Liu, L Tan, S Wu - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Diseases caused by pathogens continue to threaten the health of people around the world,
especially with the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to …

Copper clusters: an effective antibacterial for eradicating multidrug‐resistant bacterial infection in vitro and in vivo

X Zhang, Z Zhang, Q Shu, C Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infections caused by multidrug‐resistant (MDR) bacteria pose a threat to human health
worldwide, making new effective antibacterial agents urgently desired. To date, it is still a …

Emerging 2D MXenes for antibacterial applications: Current status, challenges, and prospects

X He, S Koo, E Obeng, A Sharma, J Shen… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance in bacteria is one of the most serious problems that has been battled for
some time. Though bacteria are somehow evolving at a rapid pace, with complex …

Gold nanoclusters for theranostic applications

Y Zheng, J Wu, H Jiang, X Wang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Gold nanoclusters, consisting of a few to several hundred Au atoms with a core size below 2
nm, have attracted worldwide attention in the biomedicine because of their supernormal …

Molecular reactivity of thiolate-protected noble metal nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly, and applications

Q Yao, Z Wu, Z Liu, Y Lin, X Yuan, J Xie - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Thiolate-protected noble metal (eg, Au and Ag) nanoclusters (NCs) are ultra-small particles
with a core size of less than 3 nm. Due to the strong quantum confinement effects and …

Correlations between the fundamentals and applications of ultrasmall metal nanoclusters: Recent advances in catalysis and biomedical applications

Z Liu, Z Wu, Q Yao, Y Cao, OJH Chai, J Xie - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultrasmall metal nanoparticles (NPs) with a well-defined composition and structure, the so-
called metal nanoclusters (NCs, usually smaller than 3 nm in size), represent the forefront …

pH‐triggered size‐tunable silver nanoparticles: targeted aggregation for effective bacterial infection therapy

X Cheng, X Pei, W Xie, J Chen, Y Li, J Wang, H Gao… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The rapid spread of drug‐resistant pathogens threatens human health. To address the
current antibacterial dilemma, the development of antibiotic‐free strategies using …