The dramatic increase in drug resistant bacteria resistance to existing conventional
antibiotics poses a great challenge to the effective treatment of infectious diseases …

One of the challenges posed by current antibacterial therapy is that the expanded and
massive use of antibiotics endows bacteria with the ability to resist almost all kinds of …

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) has become a fundamental tool in modern
therapeutics, notably due to the expanding versatility of photosensitizers (PSs) and the …

As an emerging bactericidal strategy, photodynamic therapy (PDT) exhibits great potential to
combat various pathogenic infections, but its antibacterial efficacy may be compromised …

Bacterial infection represents a prevalent challenge during the bone repair process, often
resulting in implant failure. However, the extensive use of antibiotics has limited local …

Biomedical devices are essential for patient diagnosis and treatment; however, when blood
comes in contact with foreign surfaces or homeostasis is disrupted, complications including …

Polymeric materials releasing nitric oxide have attracted significant attention for therapeutic
use in recent years. As one of the gaseous signaling agents in eukaryotic cells …

Exogenous nitric oxide (NO) represents an attractive antibacterial agent because of its ability
to both disperse and directly kill bacterial biofilms while avoiding resistance. Due to the …

With the increasing clinical use of invasive medical devices, various healthcare-associated
infections (HAIs) caused by bacterial biofilm colonization of biomedical devices have posed …

Smart nanomaterials activated by light is one of the most exciting strategies to control the
release of substances in varied environments. Here we developed a smart nanomaterial …