Antifouling membranes for sustainable water purification: strategies and mechanisms

R Zhang, Y Liu, M He, Y Su, X Zhao… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

MXenes antibacterial properties and applications: a review and perspective

F Seidi, A Arabi Shamsabadi, M Dadashi Firouzjaei… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The mutations of bacteria due to the excessive use of antibiotics, and generation of antibiotic‐
resistant bacteria have made the development of new antibacterial compounds a necessity …

Antibacterial Activity of Ti3C2Tx MXene

K Rasool, M Helal, A Ali, CE Ren, Y Gogotsi… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
MXenes are a family of atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides and
carbonitrides with many attractive properties. Two-dimensional Ti3C2T x (MXene) has been …

Mechanisms of the antimicrobial activities of graphene materials

X Zou, L Zhang, Z Wang, Y Luo - Journal of the american chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
A thorough understanding of the antimicrobial mechanisms of graphene materials (GMs) is
critical to the manipulation of highly efficient antimicrobial nanomaterials for future …

Antimicrobial properties of graphene oxide nanosheets: why size matters

F Perreault, AF De Faria, S Nejati, M Elimelech - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
Graphene oxide (GO) is a promising material for the development of antimicrobial surfaces
due to its contact-based antimicrobial activity. However, the relationship between GO …

Antibacterial properties of graphene-based nanomaterials

P Kumar, P Huo, R Zhang, B Liu - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Bacteria mediated infections may cause various acute or chronic illnesses and antibiotic
resistance in pathogenic bacteria has become a serious health problem around the world …

Recent advances in nanomaterials for water protection and monitoring

R Das, CD Vecitis, A Schulze, B Cao… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The efficient handling of wastewater pollutants is a must, since they are continuously defiling
limited fresh water resources, seriously affecting the terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial flora and …

Review on the antimicrobial properties of carbon nanostructures

A Al-Jumaili, S Alancherry, K Bazaka, MV Jacob - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
Swift developments in nanotechnology have prominently encouraged innovative discoveries
across many fields. Carbon-based nanomaterials have emerged as promising platforms for …

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 …

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 …