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 …

Recent advances in design of antimicrobial peptides and polypeptides toward clinical translation

Y Jiang, Y Chen, Z Song, Z Tan, J Cheng - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens have
sounded a piercing alarm for the need of new effective antimicrobial agents to guard public …

Surface-Adaptive Gold Nanoparticles with Effective Adherence and Enhanced Photothermal Ablation of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm

D Hu, H Li, B Wang, Z Ye, W Lei, F Jia, Q Jin, KF Ren… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Biofilms that contribute to the persistent bacterial infections pose serious threats to global
public health, mainly due to their resistance to antibiotics penetration and escaping innate …

Bioactive synthetic polymers

K Jung, N Corrigan, EHH Wong, C Boyer - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic polymers are omnipresent in society as textiles and packaging materials, in
construction and medicine, among many other important applications. Alternatively, natural …

Imminent antimicrobial bioink deploying cellulose, alginate, EPS and synthetic polymers for 3D bioprinting of tissue constructs

L Muthukrishnan - Carbohydrate polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 3D printing, one of its kinds has been a recent technological trend to fabricate
complex and patterned biomaterial with controlled precision. With the conventional kick-start …

Host defense peptide mimicking antimicrobial amino acid polymers and beyond: Design, synthesis and biomedical applications

Y Wu, K Chen, J Wang, M Chen, Y Chen, Y She… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial infections endanger human health and life. Conventional antibiotics has saved
countless human lives, however, is seriously challenged by the quick emergence of …

Beyond nylon 6: Polyamides via ring opening polymerization of designer lactam monomers for biomedical applications

M Varghese, MW Grinstaff - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Ring opening polymerization (ROP) of lactams is a highly efficient and versatile method to
synthesize polyamides. Within the last ten years, significant advances in polymerization …

Antimicrobial cationic polymers: From structural design to functional control

Y Yang, Z Cai, Z Huang, X Tang, X Zhang - Polymer Journal, 2018 - nature.com
Antimicrobial cationic polymers mainly contain two functional components: the cationic
groups and the hydrophobic groups. The antimicrobial activity is influenced by the type …

Synthesis, self-assembly, and biomedical applications of antimicrobial peptide–polymer conjugates

H Sun, Y Hong, Y Xi, Y Zou, J Gao, J Du - Biomacromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have been attracting much attention due to their excellent
antimicrobial efficiency and low rate in driving antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has …

Lithium hexamethyldisilazide initiated superfast ring opening polymerization of alpha-amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides

Y Wu, D Zhang, P Ma, R Zhou, L Hua, R Liu - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Polypeptides have broad applications and can be prepared via ring-opening polymerization
of α-amino acid N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs). Conventional initiators, such as primary …