Light is an attractive tool that has a profound impact on modern medicine. Particularly, light-
based photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) show great application …

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 …

Engineered wound dressing materials with excellent injectability, self-healing ability, tissue-
adhesiveness, especially the ones possessing potential therapeutic effects have great …

Chronic wounds are characterized by long-term inflammation and persistent infection, which
make them difficult to heal. Therefore, an urgent desire is to develop a multifunctional wound …

Recently, antibiotic resistance of pathogens has grown given the excessive and
inappropriate usage of common antimicrobial agents. Hence, producing novel antimicrobial …

Anti-infective biomaterials need to be tailored according to the specific clinical application.
All their properties have to be tuned to achieve the best anti-infective performance together …

Ag/Ag@ AgCl/ZnO hybrid nanostructures are embedded in a hydrogel by a simple two-step
technique. The Ag/Ag@ AgCl nanostructures are assembled in the hydrogel via ultraviolet …

Increased use of reconstruction procedures in orthopedics, due to trauma, tumor, deformity,
degeneration and an aging population, has caused a blossom, not only in surgical …

Living biological systems, ranging from single cells to whole organisms, can sense, process
information, and actuate in response to changing environmental conditions. Inspired by …

Biofilm has resulted in numerous obstinate clinical infections, posing severe threats to public
health. It is urgent to develop original antibacterial strategies for eradicating biofilms. Herein …