Carbon nanomaterials against pathogens; the antimicrobial activity of carbon nanotubes, graphene/graphene oxide, fullerenes, and their nanocomposites

M Azizi-Lalabadi, H Hashemi, J Feng… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recently, antibiotic resistance of pathogens has grown given the excessive and
inappropriate usage of common antimicrobial agents. Hence, producing novel antimicrobial …

[HTML][HTML] Graphene coupled TiO2 photocatalysts for environmental applications: A review

NT Padmanabhan, N Thomas, J Louis, DT Mathew… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanostructured photocatalysts have always offered opportunities to solve issues concerned
with the environmental challenges caused by rapid urbanization and industrialization. These …

Environmental applications of graphene-based nanomaterials

F Perreault, AF De Faria, M Elimelech - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Graphene-based materials are gaining heightened attention as novel materials for
environmental applications. The unique physicochemical properties of graphene, notably its …

Antimicrobial mechanisms and effectiveness of graphene and graphene-functionalized biomaterials. A scope review

H Mohammed, A Kumar, E Bekyarova… - … in bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial infections represent nowadays the major reason of biomaterials implant failure,
however, most of the available implantable materials do not hold antimicrobial properties …

Antibacterial applications of graphene-based nanomaterials: recent achievements and challenges

H Ji, H Sun, X Qu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Graphene has emerged as a novel green broad-spectrum antibacterial material, with little
bacterial resistance and tolerable cytotoxic effect on mammalian cells. It exerts its …

Noble metals-TiO2 nanocomposites: from fundamental mechanisms to photocatalysis, surface enhanced Raman scattering and antibacterial applications

J Prakash, S Sun, HC Swart, RK Gupta - Applied Materials Today, 2018 - Elsevier
Plasmonic photocatalyst nanomaterials are rapidly emerging as novel materials for a
number of advanced engineering applications. In the present review article, we aim to …

Antibacterial activity of graphene-based materials

S Szunerits, R Boukherroub - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Complications related to infectious diseases have significantly decreased due to the
availability and use of a wide variety of antibiotics and antimicrobial agents. However …

Polymeric antimicrobial membranes enabled by nanomaterials for water treatment

J Zhu, J Hou, Y Zhang, M Tian, T He, J Liu… - Journal of membrane …, 2018 - Elsevier
The application of polymer membranes in wastewater treatment and desalination is
widespread. Nevertheless, the longstanding biofouling issue on membrane surface has …

TiO2/graphene-based nanocomposites for water treatment: A brief overview of charge carrier transfer, antimicrobial and photocatalytic performance

E Kusiak-Nejman, AW Morawski - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019 - Elsevier
This brief review presents the principal results of studies on the photocatalytic and
antimicrobial activity of TiO 2/graphene nanohybrid materials with an application for water …

Anti-bacterial activity of graphene oxide as a new weapon nanomaterial to combat multidrug-resistance bacteria

M Yousefi, M Dadashpour, M Hejazi… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance in microbial pathogens has become a serious health problem in the
world. The increasing spread of hospital acquired infections especially in …