Diabetic wounds often have a slow healing process and become easily infected owing to
hyperglycemia in wound beds. Once planktonic bacterial cells develop into biofilms, the …

Illness as the result of ingesting bacterially contaminated foodstuffs represents a significant
annual loss of human quality of life and economic impact globally. Significant research …

Molecular design and biomimetic/bioinspired synthesis provide facile ways for the
construction of functional nanomaterials for various applications. Peptide-based functional …

A flexible microneedle patch that can transdermally deliver liquid-phase therapeutics would
enable direct use of existing, approved drugs and vaccines, which are mostly in liquid form …

Bacterial colonization and biofilm formation on indwelling medical devices potentially cause
serious and life-threatening infections. Technologies to prevent bacterial colonization and …

In the use of the medical devices, it is essential to prevent the attachment of bacteria to the
device surface or to kill the attached bacteria. To kill bacteria, many researchers have used …

Wound healing is a dynamic, orchestrated process comprising partially overlapping phases
of hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This programmed process …

Over the past few decades, extensive research efforts have been devoted to developing
surfaces with unique functionalities, such as controlled wettability, antibiofouling …

Vertically aligned nanomaterials, such as nanowires and nanoneedles, hold strong potential
as efficient platforms onto which living cells or tissues can be interfaced for use in advanced …

Bacterial fouling is a multiscale, multistage process responsible for surface contamination
and bacterial-related infections and illnesses. The formation of biofilms leading to infections …