Antiviral surfaces and coatings and their mechanisms of action

PD Rakowska, M Tiddia, N Faruqui, C Bankier… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Viral infections are a serious health challenge, and the COVID-19 pandemic has increased
the demand for antiviral measures and treatments for clean surfaces, especially in public …

Nanotechnology responses to COVID‐19

E Ruiz‐Hitzky, M Darder, B Wicklein… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers, engineers, and medical doctors are made aware of the severity of the COVID‐
19 infection and act quickly against the coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 using a large variety of …

Carbon nanotubes: a novel material for multifaceted applications in human healthcare

S Kumar, R Rani, N Dilbaghi, K Tankeshwar… - Chemical society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Remarkable advances have been achieved in modern material technology, especially in
device fabrication, and these have facilitated the use of diverse materials in various …

Nanotubes in biological applications

RV Mundra, X Wu, J Sauer, JS Dordick… - Current opinion in …, 2014 - Elsevier
Highlights•CNTs may be used as delivery vehicles or heat sources for treating cancer.•CNTs
may continue to find applications in life sciences and medical diagnosis.•CNTs are …

[HTML][HTML] Electrochemical glucose biosensor based on an osmium redox polymer and glucose oxidase grafted to carbon nanotubes: A design-of-experiments …

K Jayakumar, R Bennett, D Leech - Electrochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Enzymatic glucose electrodes based on mediated electron transfer have potential for
application as semi-implantable or implantable sensors. Enzyme electrodes consisting of …

Facile fabrication of antibacterial and antiviral perhydrolase-polydopamine composite coatings

LS Wang, S Xu, S Gopal, E Kim, D Kim, M Brier… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In situ generation of antibacterial and antiviral agents by harnessing the catalytic activity of
enzymes on surfaces provides an effective eco-friendly approach for disinfection. The …

MsAcT in siliceous monolithic microreactors enables quantitative ester synthesis in water

K Szymańska, K Odrozek, A Zniszczoł… - Catalysis Science & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Acyltransferase from Mycobacterium smegmatis (MsAcT) immobilised in continuous-flow
microchannel (30–50 μm dia.) reactors with hierarchical pore structure (4 cm3 g− 1 total …

Biocatalytic nanocomposites for combating bacterial pathogens

X Wu, SJ Kwon, J Kim, RS Kane… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Bacterial infections remain a major public health concern. However, broad-spectrum
antibiotics largely target redundant mechanisms of bacterial survival and lead to gained …

Viral diagnostics and preventive techniques in the era of COVID-19: role of nanoparticles

D Chakraborty, S Kumar, N Chandrasekaran… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 outbreak in the Hubei province of China as of December 2019 has caused
massive global fatalities. Recommended preventive strategies that include the use of …

Decolorization of Remazol Brilliant Blue R using a novel acyltransferase-ISCO (in situ chemical oxidation) coupled system

Z Shu, H Wu, H Lin, T Li, Y Liu, F Ye, X Mu, X Li… - Biochemical …, 2016 - Elsevier
The feasibility of a novel perhydrolase-ISCO (in situ chemical oxidation) coupled technology
for decolorization process of dye effluent was investigated. All the tested synthetic dyes …