Carbon nanomaterials against pathogens; the antimicrobial activity of carbon nanotubes, graphene/graphene oxide, fullerenes, and their nanocomposites

M Azizi-Lalabadi, H Hashemi, J Feng… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, antibiotic resistance of pathogens has grown given the excessive and
inappropriate usage of common antimicrobial agents. Hence, producing novel antimicrobial …

Review on the antimicrobial properties of carbon nanostructures

A Al-Jumaili, S Alancherry, K Bazaka, MV Jacob - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
Swift developments in nanotechnology have prominently encouraged innovative discoveries
across many fields. Carbon-based nanomaterials have emerged as promising platforms for …

Antimicrobial mechanisms and effectiveness of graphene and graphene-functionalized biomaterials. A scope review

H Mohammed, A Kumar, E Bekyarova… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infections represent nowadays the major reason of biomaterials implant failure,
however, most of the available implantable materials do not hold antimicrobial properties …

A review on graphene-based nanomaterials in biomedical applications and risks in environment and health

TP Dasari Shareena, D McShan, AK Dasmahapatra… - Nano-micro letters, 2018 - Springer
Graphene-based nanomaterials (GBNs) have attracted increasing interests of the scientific
community due to their unique physicochemical properties and their applications in …

Antibacterial applications of graphene-based nanomaterials: recent achievements and challenges

H Ji, H Sun, X Qu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Graphene has emerged as a novel green broad-spectrum antibacterial material, with little
bacterial resistance and tolerable cytotoxic effect on mammalian cells. It exerts its …

Graphene-based nanomaterials: the promising active agents for antibiotics-independent antibacterial applications

MY Xia, Y Xie, CH Yu, GY Chen, YH Li, T Zhang… - Journal of Controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
Graphene-based nanomaterials, such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene
oxide (rGO), have shown great potentials in drug delivery and photodynamic/photothermal …

Antibacterial activity of graphene-based materials

S Szunerits, R Boukherroub - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Complications related to infectious diseases have significantly decreased due to the
availability and use of a wide variety of antibiotics and antimicrobial agents. However …

Anti-bacterial activity of graphene oxide as a new weapon nanomaterial to combat multidrug-resistance bacteria

M Yousefi, M Dadashpour, M Hejazi… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance in microbial pathogens has become a serious health problem in the
world. The increasing spread of hospital acquired infections especially in …

Ag and Au nanoparticles/reduced graphene oxide composite materials: synthesis and application in diagnostics and therapeutics

G Darabdhara, MR Das, SP Singh, AK Rengan… - Advances in colloid and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The exceptional electrical, thermal, optical and mechanical properties have made two
dimensional sp 2 hybridized graphene a material of choice in both academic as well as …

Antibacterial action of nanoparticle loaded nanocomposites based on graphene and its derivatives: a mini-review

AM Díez-Pascual - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bacterial infections constitute a severe problem in various areas of everyday life, causing
pain and death, and adding enormous costs to healthcare worldwide. Besides, they cause …