Antibiotic resistance is a global human health threat, causing routine treatments of bacterial
infections to become increasingly difficult. The problem is exacerbated by biofilm formation …

Swift developments in nanotechnology have prominently encouraged innovative discoveries
across many fields. Carbon-based nanomaterials have emerged as promising platforms for …

Drastic miniaturization of electronics and ingression of next-generation nanomaterials into
space technology have provoked a renaissance in interplanetary flights and near-Earth …

The threat of a global rise in the number of untreatable infections caused by antibiotic-
resistant bacteria calls for the design and fabrication of a new generation of bactericidal …

Multidrug-resistant bacterial infections that have evolved via natural selection have
increased alarmingly at a global level. Thus, there is a strong need for the development of …

Although high-performance carbon materials are widely used in surface engineering, with
emphasis on carbon nanotubes (CNTs), the application of CNT nanocomposites on medical …

Increasingly intricate in their composition and structural organization, hierarchical
multicomponent metamaterials with nonlinear spatially reconfigurable functionalities …

Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), a unique classification of CNT, highly
oriented and normal to the respective substrate, have been heavily researched over the last …

Abstract Background Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have gained wide interest as viable
alternatives to antibiotics owing to their potent antimicrobial effects and the low propensity of …

Nanomaterials have emerged as the new weapon in the arsenal to fight antimicrobial
resistance (AMR). While antibiotics have played a major role in combating infectious …