Surface design for antibacterial materials: from fundamentals to advanced strategies

W Li, ES Thian, M Wang, Z Wang, L Ren - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Healthcare‐acquired infections as well as increasing antimicrobial resistance have become
an urgent global challenge, thus smart alternative solutions are needed to tackle bacterial …

Antimicrobial ionic liquid‐based materials for biomedical applications

N Nikfarjam, M Ghomi, T Agarwal… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Excessive and unwarranted administration of antibiotics has invigorated the evolution of
multidrug‐resistant microbes. There is, therefore, an urgent need for advanced active …

CO 2-fixation into cyclic and polymeric carbonates: principles and applications

AJ Kamphuis, F Picchioni, PP Pescarmona - Green chemistry, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The reaction between carbon dioxide and epoxides is an attractive pathway for CO2-
utilisation as it can lead to the formation of two different, yet valuable, products: cyclic and …

[HTML][HTML] Mussel-inspired surface engineering for water-remediation materials

Z Wang, HC Yang, F He, S Peng, Y Li, L Shao… - Matter, 2019 - cell.com
Mussel-inspired chemistry, as a powerful tool to manipulate material properties, has been
widely studied and implemented in surface engineering of a variety of materials for …

Advances of peptides for antibacterial applications

Y Yan, Y Li, Z Zhang, X Wang, Y Niu, S Zhang… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, peptide antibacterial products with unique antibacterial
mechanisms have attracted widespread interest. They can effectively reduce the probability …

Membrane materials for water purification: design, development, and application

A Lee, JW Elam, SB Darling - Environmental Science: Water Research …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Water purification for human use, ecosystem management, agriculture, and industry is
emerging as a leading global priority. Access to sufficient clean water ultimately requires …

Recent developments in polydopamine: an emerging soft matter for surface modification and biomedical applications

M Liu, G Zeng, K Wang, Q Wan, L Tao, X Zhang, Y Wei - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
After more than four billion years of evolution, nature has created a large number of
fascinating living organisms, which show numerous peculiar structures and wonderful …

Green fabrication of amphiphilic quaternized β‐chitin derivatives with excellent biocompatibility and antibacterial activities for wound healing

H Xu, Z Fang, W Tian, Y Wang, Q Ye… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial infection has always been a great threat to public health, and new antimicrobials to
combat it are urgently needed. Here, a series of quaternized β‐chitin derivatives is prepared …

The mechanisms and the applications of antibacterial polymers in surface modification on medical devices

H Qiu, Z Si, Y Luo, P Feng, X Wu, W Hou… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Medical device contamination caused by microbial pathogens such as bacteria and fungi
has posed a severe threat to the patients' health in hospitals. Due to the increasing …

Recent progress in polymer research to tackle infections and antimicrobial resistance

MM Konai, B Bhattacharjee, S Ghosh… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Global health is increasingly being threatened by the rapid emergence of drug-resistant
microbes. The ability of these microbes to form biofilms has further exacerbated the scenario …