Antibacterial carbon‐based nanomaterials

Q Xin, H Shah, A Nawaz, W Xie, MZ Akram… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence and global spread of bacterial resistance to currently available antibiotics
underscore the urgent need for new alternative antibacterial agents. Recent studies on the …

[HTML][HTML] Carbon dots as potent antimicrobial agents

X Dong, W Liang, MJ Meziani, YP Sun, L Yang - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Carbon dots (CDots) have emerged to represent a highly promising new platform for
visible/natural light-activated microbicidal agents. In this article, the syntheses, structures …

Engineering plants with carbon nanotubes: a sustainable agriculture approach

M Safdar, W Kim, S Park, Y Gwon, YO Kim… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Sustainable agriculture is an important conception to meet the growing food demand of the
global population. The increased need for adequate and safe food, as well as the ongoing …

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 …

Nanoparticles: alternatives against drug-resistant pathogenic microbes

GR Rudramurthy, MK Swamy, UR Sinniah… - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial substances may be synthetic, semisynthetic, or of natural origin (ie, from plants
and animals). Antimicrobials are considered “miracle drugs” and can determine if an …

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 …

Environmental application of nanotechnology: air, soil, and water

RK Ibrahim, M Hayyan, MA AlSaadi, A Hayyan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Global deterioration of water, soil, and atmosphere by the release of toxic chemicals from the
ongoing anthropogenic activities is becoming a serious problem throughout the world. This …

Antibacterial activity of graphite, graphite oxide, graphene oxide, and reduced graphene oxide: membrane and oxidative stress

S Liu, TH Zeng, M Hofmann, E Burcombe, J Wei… - ACS …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Health and environmental impacts of graphene-based materials need to be thoroughly
evaluated before their potential applications. Graphene has strong cytotoxicity toward …

Oxidative stress-mediated antibacterial activity of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

S Gurunathan, JW Han, AA Dayem… - International journal …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background Graphene holds great promise for potential use in next-generation electronic
and photonic devices due to its unique high carrier mobility, good optical transparency, large …

“Nanoantibiotics”: a new paradigm for treating infectious diseases using nanomaterials in the antibiotics resistant era

AJ Huh, YJ Kwon - Journal of controlled release, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that we live in an era of advanced and innovative technologies for
elucidating underlying mechanisms of diseases and molecularly designing new drugs …