Healthcare‐acquired infections as well as increasing antimicrobial resistance have become
an urgent global challenge, thus smart alternative solutions are needed to tackle bacterial …

Nearly a century has passed since the discovery of the first antibiotics. With each passing
decade, more bacterial strains developed resistance towards existing antibiotics. Alternative …

With the rise of bacterial and viral infections including the recent outbreak of coronavirus, the
requirement for novel antimicrobial strategies is also rising with urgency. To solve this …

In this study, we investigate the microscale structure of shark skin denticles at abdomen (A)
and fin (F) locations, analyze the roughness and wetting properties related to their …

Electronic skins (e‐skins) have the potential to turn into breakthroughs in biomedical
applications. Herein, a novel acellular dermal matrix (ADM)‐based bioelectronic skin (e …

Implant-associated infections are generally difficult to cure owing to the bacterial antibiotic
resistance which is attributed to the widespread usage of antibiotics. Given the global threat …

Friction, wear, and the consequent energy dissipation pose significant challenges in
systems with moving components, spanning various domains, including …

Micro/nanorobots have shown great promise for minimally invasive bacterial infection
therapy. However, bacterial infections usually form biofilms inside the body by aggregation …

The electromagnetic enhancement (EM) mechanism is one of the important theories that
need to be mastered to study surface-enhanced fluorescence (SEF) and surface-enhanced …

A holistic biointegration of percutaneous bone-anchored metallic prostheses with both hard
and soft tissues dictates their longevity in the human body. While titanium (Ti) has nearly …