Advances of peptides for antibacterial applications

Y Yan, Y Li, Z Zhang, X Wang, Y Niu, S Zhang… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, peptide antibacterial products with unique antibacterial
mechanisms have attracted widespread interest. They can effectively reduce the probability …

Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae as emerging sources of antibacterial peptides

V Rojas, L Rivas, C Cárdenas, F Guzmán - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria and microalgae are oxygen-producing photosynthetic unicellular organisms
encompassing a great diversity of species, which are able to grow under all types of extreme …

Self-healing hydrogels: from synthesis to multiple applications

H Yin, F Liu, T Abdiryim, X Liu - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Due to the good reliability and long-term stability, self-healing hydrogels have emerged as
promising soft materials for tissue engineering, smart wearable sensors, bioelectronics, and …

Fabrication of self-healing pectin/chitosan hybrid hydrogel via Diels-Alder reactions for drug delivery with high swelling property, pH-responsiveness, and …

D Li, S Wang, Y Meng, Z Guo, M Cheng, J Li - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-healing hydrogels with pH-responsiveness could protect loaded drugs from being
destroyed till it arrives to the target. The pectin-based hydrogel is a candidate due to the …

Rational design of peptide-based smart hydrogels for therapeutic applications

S Das, D Das - Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Peptide-based hydrogels have captivated remarkable attention in recent times and serve as
an excellent platform for biomedical applications owing to the impressive amalgamation of …

Peptide-based supramolecular hydrogels as drug delivery agents: recent advances

CBP Oliveira, V Gomes, PMT Ferreira, JA Martins… - Gels, 2022 - mdpi.com
Supramolecular peptide hydrogels have many important applications in biomedicine,
including drug delivery applications for the sustained release of therapeutic molecules …

Chemically and physically crosslinked lignin hydrogels with antifouling and antimicrobial properties

C Xu, L Liu, S Renneckar, F Jiang - Industrial Crops and Products, 2021 - Elsevier
As the second most abundant polymer on earth, lignin has been largely underestimated as
biomaterial in the biomedical field. In this work, we proposed a strategy to transform lignin …

Design of Stimuli‐Responsive Peptides and Proteins

Y Li, G Yang, L Gerstweiler, SH Thang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stimuli‐responsive peptides and proteins are an exciting class of smart biomaterials for
various applications and have received significant attention over the past decades. A wide …

Nanostructured antimicrobial peptides: crucial steps of overcoming the bottleneck for clinics

Z Yang, S He, H Wu, T Yin, L Wang… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The security issue of human health is faced with dispiriting threats from multidrug-resistant
bacteria infections induced by the abuse and misuse of antibiotics. Over decades, the …

Multidrug‐Resistant Pathogens in Burn Wound, Prevention, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Approaches (Conventional Antimicrobials and Nanoparticles)

J Hemmati, M Azizi, B Asghari… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multidrug‐resistant pathogens are one of the common causes of death in burn patients and
have a high risk of nosocomial infections, especially pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and …