Nanotechnology-based strategies against SARS-CoV-2 variants

X Huang, E Kon, X Han, X Zhang, N Kong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has already infected more
than 500 million people globally (as of May 2022), creating the coronavirus disease 2019 …

Antiviral surfaces and coatings and their mechanisms of action

PD Rakowska, M Tiddia, N Faruqui, C Bankier… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Viral infections are a serious health challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased
the demand for antiviral measures and treatments for clean surfaces, especially in public …

Metal and metal oxide-based antiviral nanoparticles: Properties, mechanisms of action, and applications

M Alavi, P Kamarasu, DJ McClements… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Certain types of metal-based nanoparticles are effective antiviral agents when used in their
original form (“bare”) or after their surfaces have been functionalized (“modified”), including …

Recent advancements in plant-and microbe-mediated synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanomaterials and their emerging antimicrobial applications

A Rana, S Pathak, DK Lim, SK Kim… - ACS applied nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Antibiotic resistance against infections caused by microbes has emerged as a global
challenge resulting in longer hospitalizations and higher medical cost and mortality. The …

Antibacterial and antiviral high-performance nanosystems to mitigate new SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

S Tiwari, S Juneja, A Ghosal, N Bandara… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The increased severity of the COVID-19 infection due to new SARS-CoV-2 variants has
resonated pandemic impact which made health experts to re-evaluate the effectiveness of …

Affinity exploration of SARS-CoV-2 RBD variants to mAb-functionalized plasmonic metasurfaces for label-free immunoassay boosting

F Li, J Hong, C Guan, K Chen, Y **e, Q Wu, J Chen… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic metasurfaces (PMs) functionalized with the monoclonal antibody (mAb) are
promising biophotonic sensors for biomolecular interaction analysis and convenient …

Chemical design principles of next-generation antiviral surface coatings

N Wang, AR Ferhan, BK Yoon, JA Jackman… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated efforts to
develop high-performance antiviral surface coatings while highlighting the need to build a …

Physics-based generative model of curvature sensing peptides; distinguishing sensors from binders

N van Hilten, J Methorst, N Verwei, HJ Risselada - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Proteins can specifically bind to curved membranes through curvature-induced hydrophobic
lipid packing defects. The chemical diversity among such curvature “sensors” challenges our …

Surfactants–compounds for inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 and other enveloped viruses

M Simon, M Veit, K Osterrieder, M Gradzielski - Current opinion in colloid & …, 2021 - Elsevier
We provide here a general view on the interactions of surfactants with viruses, with a
particular emphasis on how such interactions can be controlled and employed for inhibiting …

Development of antiviral carbon quantum dots that target the Japanese encephalitis virus envelope protein

HH Chen, CJ Lin, A Anand, HJ Lin, HY Lin… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Japanese encephalitis is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Japanese encephalitis
virus (JEV) that is prevalent in Asia and the Western Pacific. Currently, there is no effective …