Pathogenic microorganisms are considered to a major threat to human health, impinging on
multiple sectors including hospitals, dentistry, food storage and packaging, and water …

One of the greatest challenges to the sustainability of modern society is an inadequate
supply of clean water. Due to its energy-saving and cost-effective features, membrane …

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease COVID-19, remains viable on solids for
periods of up to 1 week, so one potential route for human infection is via exposure to an …

Researchers, engineers, and medical doctors are made aware of the severity of the COVID‐
19 infection and act quickly against the coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 using a large variety of …

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 …

This article describes the state of the art in the field of antimicrobial polymeric systems during
the last decade. Keeping in mind the multitude of existing systems, a classification of the …

Bacterial attachment and the subsequent formation of biofilm on surfaces of synthetic
materials pose a serious problem in both human healthcare and industrial applications. In …

This article reviews the physical and chemical constraints of environments on biofilm
formation. We provide a perspective on how materials science and engineering can address …

This review covers the most recent developments of inorganic and organic-inorganic
composite coatings for orthopedic implants, providing the interface with living tissue and with …

Layer-by-layer (LbL) was first introduced as a surface modification technique based on the
sequential spontaneous adsorption of at least two distinct materials onto planar substrates …