Surface design for antibacterial materials: from fundamentals to advanced strategies

W Li, ES Thian, M Wang, Z Wang, L Ren - Advanced Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Healthcare‐acquired infections as well as increasing antimicrobial resistance have become
an urgent global challenge, thus smart alternative solutions are needed to tackle bacterial …

Design, optimization, and nanotechnology of antimicrobial peptides: From exploration to applications

P Tan, H Fu, X Ma - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance caused by antibiotic abuse, especially the emergence of multi-drug
resistant bacteria, poses a serious threat to human health, and makes it imperative to find …

Advances of antimicrobial peptide‐based biomaterials for the treatment of bacterial infections

G Li, Z Lai, A Shan - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Owing to the increase in multidrug‐resistant bacterial isolates in hospitals globally and the
lack of truly effective antimicrobial agents, antibiotic resistant bacterial infections have …

Supramolecular antibacterial materials for combatting antibiotic resistance

X Li, H Bai, Y Yang, J Yoon, S Wang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotic‐resistant bacteria have emerged as a severe threat to human health. As effective
antibacterial therapies, supramolecular materials display unprecedented advantages …

Green regenerative hydrogel wound dressing functionalized by natural drug‐food homologous small molecule self‐assembled nanospheres

X Sun, P Jia, H Zhang, M Dong, J Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of regenerative wound healing dressings is to restore tissue function back to
normal physiological activity and accelerate skin tissue regeneration at wound sites. The …

Copper clusters: an effective antibacterial for eradicating multidrug‐resistant bacterial infection in vitro and in vivo

X Zhang, Z Zhang, Q Shu, C Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infections caused by multidrug‐resistant (MDR) bacteria pose a threat to human health
worldwide, making new effective antibacterial agents urgently desired. To date, it is still a …

Natural berberine-based Chinese herb medicine assembled nanostructures with modified antibacterial application

T Li, P Wang, W Guo, X Huang, X Tian, G Wu, B Xu… - Acs Nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
The abuse of traditional antibiotics has caused a series of health problems including
antimicrobial resistance, which threatens human health. Therefore, searching for broad …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical modifications to increase the therapeutic potential of antimicrobial peptides

Y Han, M Zhang, R Lai, Z Zhang - Peptides, 2021 - Elsevier
The continued use of antibiotics has been accompanied by the rapid emergence and spread
of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), also known as host …

Defensins: The natural peptide antibiotic

X Gao, J Ding, C Liao, J Xu, X Liu, W Lu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Defensins are a family of cationic antimicrobial peptides active against a broad range of
infectious microbes including bacteria, viruses and fungi, playing important roles as innate …

Antimicrobial peptides: from design to clinical application

C Zhang, M Yang - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Infection of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), and extended-spectrum …