Nanotechnology-based antimicrobials and delivery systems for biofilm-infection control

Y Liu, L Shi, L Su, HC van der Mei, PC Jutte… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacterial-infections are mostly due to bacteria in an adhering, biofilm-mode of growth and
not due to planktonically growing, suspended-bacteria. Biofilm-bacteria are much more …

Nanotechnology's frontier in combatting infectious and inflammatory diseases: prevention and treatment

Y Huang, X Guo, Y Wu, X Chen, L Feng, N **e… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Inflammation-associated diseases encompass a range of infectious diseases and non-
infectious inflammatory diseases, which continuously pose one of the most serious threats to …

Recent advances in design of antimicrobial peptides and polypeptides toward clinical translation

Y Jiang, Y Chen, Z Song, Z Tan, J Cheng - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens have
sounded a piercing alarm for the need of new effective antimicrobial agents to guard public …

Bioactive synthetic polymers

K Jung, N Corrigan, EHH Wong, C Boyer - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic polymers are omnipresent in society as textiles and packaging materials, in
construction and medicine, among many other important applications. Alternatively, natural …

Molecular sizes and antibacterial performance relationships of flexible ionic liquid derivatives

L Zheng, J Li, M Yu, W Jia, S Duan, D Cao… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cationic agents, such as ionic liquids (ILs)-based species, have broad-spectrum
antibacterial activities. However, the antibacterial mechanisms lack systematic and …

Antibacterial efficiency of carbon dots against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria: A review

M Varghese, M Balachandran - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The nontoxic characteristics and inherent antibacterial potency of Carbon dots (CDs) have
earned immense attention in the last few years. As the increasing antibiotic resistance of …

Peptidomimetic polyurethanes inhibit bacterial biofilm formation and disrupt surface established biofilms

A Vishwakarma, F Dang, A Ferrell… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Over 80% of all chronic bacterial infections in humans are associated with biofilms, which
are surface-associated bacterial communities encased within a secreted exopolysaccharide …

Hydrophilic nanoparticles that kill bacteria while sparing mammalian cells reveal the antibiotic role of nanostructures

Y Jiang, W Zheng, K Tran, E Kamilar, J Bariwal… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
To dissect the antibiotic role of nanostructures from chemical moieties belligerent to both
bacterial and mammalian cells, here we show the antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity of …

Polymers as advanced antibacterial and antibiofilm agents for direct and combination therapies

Z Si, W Zheng, D Prananty, J Li, CH Koh, ET Kang… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The growing prevalence of antimicrobial drug resistance in pathogenic bacteria is a critical
threat to global health. Conventional antibiotics still play a crucial role in treating bacterial …

Antimicrobial polymeric nanoparticles

SJ Lam, EHH Wong, C Boyer, GG Qiao - Progress in polymer science, 2018 - Elsevier
Currently, infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria have reached critical levels.
Thus, various approaches are being explored for the development of new and effective …