Photocatalytic antimicrobials: principles, design strategies, and applications

B Ran, L Ran, Z Wang, J Liao, D Li, K Chen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nowadays, the increasing emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic microorganisms
requires the search for alternative methods that do not cause drug resistance. Phototherapy …

Antibacterial nanomaterials: mechanisms, impacts on antimicrobial resistance and design principles

M Xie, M Gao, Y Yun, M Malmsten… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to the environment and health.
AMR rapidly invalidates conventional antibiotics, and antimicrobial nanomaterials have …

Controlling covalent chemistry on graphene oxide

S Guo, S Garaj, A Bianco, C Ménard-Moyon - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Graphene has attracted intensive research interest in many fields, owing to its remarkable
physicochemical properties. Nevertheless, its low dispersibility in most organic solvents and …

Mechano-bactericidal actions of nanostructured surfaces

DP Linklater, VA Baulin, S Juodkazis… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is a global human health threat, causing routine treatments of bacterial
infections to become increasingly difficult. The problem is exacerbated by biofilm formation …

Antibiotic‐free antibacterial strategies enabled by nanomaterials: progress and perspectives

Y Wang, Y Yang, Y Shi, H Song, C Yu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial infection is one of the top ten leading causes of death globally and the worst killer
in low‐income countries. The overuse of antibiotics leads to ever‐increasing antibiotic …

Engineering antifouling reverse osmosis membranes: A review

S Zhao, Z Liao, A Fane, J Li, C Tang, C Zheng, J Lin… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, water scarcity and security have significantly stimulated the
advances of reverse osmosis (RO) technology, which dominates the global desalination …

Emerging opportunities for nanotechnology to enhance water security

PJJ Alvarez, CK Chan, M Elimelech, NJ Halas… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
No other resource is as necessary for life as water, and providing it universally in a safe,
reliable and affordable manner is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century …

Nanofiltration for drinking water treatment: a review

H Guo, X Li, W Yang, Z Yao, Y Mei, LE Peng… - Frontiers of Chemical …, 2022 - Springer
In recent decades, nanofiltration (NF) is considered as a promising separation technique to
produce drinking water from different types of water source. In this paper, we …

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 …

Graphene and its derivatives: understanding the main chemical and medicinal chemistry roles for biomedical applications

TM Magne, T de Oliveira Vieira, LMR Alencar… - Journal of nanostructure …, 2022 - Springer
Over the past few years, there has been a growing potential use of graphene and its
derivatives in several biomedical areas, such as drug delivery systems, biosensors, and …