Tetracycline encapsulated in Au nanoparticle-decorated ZnO nanohybrids for enhanced antibacterial activity

SA Ahmed, MN Hasan, HM Altass, A Bera… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bacterial infections instigated by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are considered perilous health
threats in today's world due to their fast-increasing nature and the fewer availability of new …

Green synthesis of Zno@ GO nanocomposite and its' efficient antibacterial activity

M Tariq, AU Khan, AU Rehman, S Ullah, AU Jan… - Photodiagnosis and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanotechnologyapplications in the field of biomedicine like drug delivery, cell labeling, and
bacterial inhibition are growing. New nano-materials having less toxicity and excellent …

Facile assembly of multifunctional antibacterial nanoplatform leveraging synergistic sensitization between silver nanostructure and vancomycin

K Ma, P Dong, M Liang, S Yu, Y Chen… - ACS applied materials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains renders the conventional antibiotic
therapy less efficient. The integration of two distinct bactericides into one compact platform …

Visible light-induced synergic antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles/methylene blue nanohybrids encapsulated in chitosan and pluronic polymers

GAS Lima, GG Guerini, SP de Vasconcellos… - Chemical Papers, 2023 - Springer
Despite the extraordinary advances, bacterial infections continue to be one of the main
concerns in modern medicine due the development of antibiotic multidrug resistant strains …

Photocatalytic antibacterial application of zinc oxide nanoparticles and self-assembled networks under dual UV irradiation for enhanced disinfection

SE Jin, JE Jin, W Hwang, SW Hong - International journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles and their networks have been developed for
use in various applications such as gas sensors and semiconductors. Aim In this study, their …

Recent Progress on Novel Ag–TiO2 Nanocomposites for Antibacterial Applications

J Prakash, BS Kaith, S Sun, S Bellucci… - … Nanobionics: Volume 2 …, 2019 - Springer
Bacterial infection is a major problem in our society because some diseases originate from
various microbes. Therefore, much research has been devoted to the design and …

Photo-enhanced antibacterial activity of ZnO/graphene quantum dot nanocomposites

J Liu, MD Rojas-Andrade, G Chata, Y Peng… - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthesis of new, highly active antibacterial agents has become increasingly important in
light of emerging antibiotic resistance. In the present study, ZnO/graphene quantum dot …

Multifunctional phototheranostic agent ZnO@ Ag for anti-infection through photothermal/photodynamic therapy

E Obeng, J Feng, D Wang, D Zheng, B Xiang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To overcome the limitations of traditional therapeutics, nanotechnology has presented a
synergistic therapeutic approach for the treatment of bacterial infection and biofilms which …

Hierarchical nanostructures of Au@ ZnO: antibacterial and antibiofilm agent

H Gholap, S Warule, J Sangshetti, G Kulkarni… - Applied microbiology …, 2016 - Springer
The perpetual use of antibiotics against pathogens inadvertently altered their genes that
have translated into an unprecedented resistance in microorganisms in the twenty-first …

Leveraging oxygen-vacancy-rich Yb-MnO2/N-carbon quantum dots heterostructure for solar light-driven tetracycline detoxification and antibiotic-resistant bacteria …

Z Chen, D Yang, Z Liang, Y Xu, Y Pang, G Xu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial pollution and antibiotic contamination can pose a serious threat to human health.
The rational development of efficient and low-cost methods is critical to solving these …