Synergistic antibacterial strategy based on photodynamic therapy: Progress and perspectives

X Hu, H Zhang, Y Wang, BC Shiu, JH Lin… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dramatic increase in drug resistant bacteria resistance to existing conventional
antibiotics poses a great challenge to the effective treatment of infectious diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Metal-based nanoparticles: Antibacterial mechanisms and biomedical application

D Franco, G Calabrese, SPP Guglielmino, S Conoci - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The growing increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria has led to the search for new
antibacterial agents capable of overcoming the resistance problem. In recent years …

Near-unity NIR phosphorescent quantum yield from a room-temperature solvated metal nanocluster

WQ Shi, L Zeng, RL He, XS Han, ZJ Guan, M Zhou… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Metal nanoclusters have emerged as promising near-infrared (NIR)–emissive materials, but
their room-temperature photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), especially in solution, is …

Emerging photothermal-derived multimodal synergistic therapy in combating bacterial infections

J Huo, Q Jia, H Huang, J Zhang, P Li, X Dong… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to the emerging bacterial resistance and the protection of tenacious biofilms, it is hard
for the single antibacterial modality to achieve satisfactory therapeutic effects nowadays. In …

[HTML][HTML] Antibacterial approaches in tissue engineering using metal ions and nanoparticles: From mechanisms to applications

M Godoy-Gallardo, U Eckhard, LM Delgado… - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Bacterial infection of implanted scaffolds may have fatal consequences and, in combination
with the emergence of multidrug bacterial resistance, the development of advanced …

Ultrasmall coinage metal nanoclusters as promising theranostic probes for biomedical applications

G Yang, Z Wang, F Du, F Jiang, X Yuan… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ultrasmall coinage metal nanoclusters (NCs,< 3 nm) have emerged as a novel class of
theranostic probes due to their atomically precise size and engineered physicochemical …

Biobased materials for active food packaging: A review

OM Atta, S Manan, A Shahzad, M Ul-Islam, MW Ullah… - Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
A large portion of food is lost due to the damage caused by different environmental factors
such as moisture, oxidation, irradiation, microbial contamination, and others. Thus, food …

Antibiotic‐free antibacterial strategies enabled by nanomaterials: progress and perspectives

Y Wang, Y Yang, Y Shi, H Song, C Yu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial infection is one of the top ten leading causes of death globally and the worst killer
in low‐income countries. The overuse of antibiotics leads to ever‐increasing antibiotic …

Infection microenvironment-related antibacterial nanotherapeutic strategies

Z Wang, X Liu, Y Duan, Y Huang - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges in public
health. There is an urgent need to discover novel agents against the occurrence of multidrug …

Metal‐based nanomaterials in biomedical applications: antimicrobial activity and cytotoxicity aspects

P Makvandi, C Wang, EN Zare… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial colonization on material surfaces is ubiquitous. Biofilms derived from surface‐
colonized microbes pose serious problems to the society from both an economical …