Engineering mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery: where are we after two decades?

M Vallet-Regí, F Schüth, D Lozano, M Colilla… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The present review details a chronological description of the events that took place during
the development of mesoporous materials, their different synthetic routes and their use as …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial approaches in tissue engineering using metal ions and nanoparticles: From mechanisms to applications

M Godoy-Gallardo, U Eckhard, LM Delgado… - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial infection of implanted scaffolds may have fatal consequences and, in combination
with the emergence of multidrug bacterial resistance, the development of advanced …

Green synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles from plant extracts and their possible applications as antimicrobial agents in the agricultural area

L Castillo-Henríquez, K Alfaro-Aguilar… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, metal nanoparticles have varied uses for different medical, pharmaceutical, and
agricultural applications. Nanobiotechnology, combined with green chemistry, has great …

Synergistic effects between metal nanoparticles and commercial antimicrobial agents: A review

AI Ribeiro, AM Dias, A Zille - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanotechnology has expanded into a broad range of clinical applications. In particular,
metal nanoparticles (MNPs) display unique antimicrobial properties, a fundamental function …

Bioengineering of green-synthesized silver nanoparticles: In vitro physicochemical, antibacterial, biofilm inhibitory, anticoagulant, and antioxidant performance

N Talank, H Morad, H Barabadi, F Mojab, S Amidi… - Talanta, 2022 - Elsevier
Green-synthesized nanobiomaterials can be engineered as smart nanomedicine platforms
for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in medicine. Herein, we investigated the …

Synergistic combinations of metal, metal oxide, or metalloid nanoparticles plus antibiotics against resistant and non-resistant bacteria

M Alavi, MR Hamblin, F Martinez… - Micro Nano Bio …, 2022 - mnba-journal.com
The emergence of drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria due to the indiscriminate use of
antibiotics is a major challenge to global public health. Therefore, improved and more …

Biological synthesis of silver nanoparticles and prospects in plant disease management

M Tariq, KN Mohammad, B Ahmed, MA Siddiqui, J Lee - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exploration of nanoparticles (NPs) for various biological and environmental applications has
become one of the most important attributes of nanotechnology. Due to remarkable …

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 …

Synergistic antibacterial effects of curcumin modified silver nanoparticles through ROS-mediated pathways

Z Song, Y Wu, H Wang, H Han - Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2019 - Elsevier
Due to their remarkable antibacterial properties, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) and curcumin
(CCM) have been widely used in the antimicrobial field. In our study, we have fabricated the …

Catechol-functional chitosan/silver nanoparticle composite as a highly effective antibacterial agent with species-specific mechanisms

X Huang, X Bao, Y Liu, Z Wang, Q Hu - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this study, silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) coated with catechol-conjugated chitosan (CSS)
were prepared using green methods. Interestingly, we uncovered that CSS-coated Ag NPs …