Carbon-based nanomaterials: promising antiviral agents to combat COVID-19 in the microbial-resistant era

Á Serrano-Aroca, K Takayama, A Tuñón-Molina… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Therapeutic options for the highly pathogenic human severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing the current pandemic coronavirus disease (COVID …

Antimicrobial metal nanomaterials: from passive to stimuli‐activated applications

S Cheeseman, AJ Christofferson, R Kariuki… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The development of antimicrobial drug resistance among pathogenic bacteria and fungi is
one of the most significant health issues of the 21st century. Recently, advances in …

Role of bacterial motility in differential resistance mechanisms of silver nanoparticles and silver ions

LM Stabryla, KA Johnston, NA Diemler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Unlike conventional antimicrobials, the study of bacterial resistance to silver nanoparticles
(AgNPs) remains in its infancy and the mechanism (s) through which it evolves are limited …

Silver nanomaterials: synthesis and (electro/photo) catalytic applications

RK Sharma, S Yadav, S Dutta, HB Kale… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In view of their unique characteristics and properties, silver nanomaterials (Ag NMs) have
been used not only in the field of nanomedicine but also for diverse advanced catalytic …

Emerging Concern for Silver Nanoparticle Resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii and Other Bacteria

O McNeilly, R Mann, M Hamidian… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The misuse of antibiotics combined with a lack of newly developed ones is the main
contributors to the current antibiotic resistance crisis. There is a dire need for new and …

Do physico-chemical properties of silver nanoparticles decide their interaction with biological media and bactericidal action? A review

V Pareek, R Gupta, J Panwar - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2018 - Elsevier
The unprecedented increase in antibiotic resistance in this era has resuscitated the attention
of scientific community to exploit silver and its various species as antimicrobial agents …

Bismuth-based materials for iodine capture and storage: A review

AT Reda, M Pan, D Zhang, X Xu - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
As energy demand increases, nuclear power plants will continue to be reliable sources of
energy though they release toxic byproducts to the environment. Separation of such …

Silver bullets: A new lustre on an old antimicrobial agent

JS Möhler, W Sim, MAT Blaskovich, MA Cooper… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Silver was widely used in medicine to treat bacterial infections in the 19th and early 20th
century, up until the discovery and development of the first modern antibiotics in the 1940s …

Recent studies on the antimicrobial activity of transition metal complexes of groups 6–12

S Nasiri Sovari, F Zobi - Chemistry, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires
innovative solutions to counteract new resistance mechanisms emerging and spreading …

In-situ synthesis silver nanoparticles in chitosan/Bletilla striata polysaccharide composited microneedles for infected and susceptible wound healing

X Yang, M Jia, Z Li, Z Ma, J Lv, D Jia, D He… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel antibacterial strategy is urgently required to develop for solving bacterial biofilm
obstruction and bacterial drug resistance in the infected wound healing process. Herein, the …