Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation

Z Tu, Y Zhong, H Hu, D Shao, R Haag… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inflammation plays an important role in the response to danger signals arising from damage
to our body and in restoring homeostasis. Dysregulated inflammatory responses occur in …

Overcoming barriers in photodynamic therapy harnessing nano-formulation strategies

J Xie, Y Wang, W Choi, P Jangili, Y Ge, Y Xu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been extensively investigated for decades for tumor
treatment because of its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal selectivity, lower side-effects, and …

Advances in nanomaterials for photodynamic therapy applications: Status and challenges

J Chen, T Fan, Z Xie, Q Zeng, P Xue, T Zheng, Y Chen… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Photodynamic therapy (PDT), as a non-invasive therapeutic modality that is alternative to
radiotherapy and chemotherapy, is extensively investigated for cancer treatments. Although …

Fluorogenic probes for disease-relevant enzymes

J Zhang, X Chai, XP He, HJ Kim, J Yoon… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Traditional biochemical methods for enzyme detection are mainly based on antibody-based
immunoassays, which lack the ability to monitor the spatiotemporal distribution and, in …

Two-Dimensional Materials in Biosensing and Healthcare: From In Vitro Diagnostics to Optogenetics and Beyond

A Bolotsky, D Butler, C Dong, K Gerace, NR Glavin… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Since the isolation of graphene in 2004, there has been an exponentially growing number of
reports on layered two-dimensional (2D) materials for applications ranging from protective …

Two-dimensional antibacterial materials

B Li, Y Luo, Y Zheng, X Liu, L Tan, S Wu - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Diseases caused by pathogens continue to threaten the health of people around the world,
especially with the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to …

Antimicrobial activity of metal and metal‐oxide based nanoparticles

K Gold, B Slay, M Knackstedt… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With an increase in antibiotic resistance, a growing interest in developing new antimicrobial
agents has gained popularity. Metal‐and metal‐oxide‐based nanoparticles, surface‐to …

Toxic reactive oxygen species enhanced synergistic combination therapy by self‐assembled metal‐phenolic network nanoparticles

Y Dai, Z Yang, S Cheng, Z Wang, R Zhang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Engineering functional nanomaterials with high therapeutic efficacy and minimum side
effects has increasingly become a promising strategy for cancer treatment. Herein, a reactive …

[HTML][HTML] Two-dimensional nanomaterials beyond graphene for antibacterial applications: current progress and future perspectives

L Mei, S Zhu, W Yin, C Chen, G Nie, Z Gu, Y Zhao - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The marked augment of drug-resistance to traditional antibiotics underlines the crying need
for novel replaceable antibacterials. Research advances have revealed the considerable …

Tuning the Bandgap of Photo-Sensitive Polydopamine/Ag3PO4/Graphene Oxide Coating for Rapid, Noninvasive Disinfection of Implants

X Xie, C Mao, X Liu, L Tan, Z Cui, X Yang… - ACS central …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Bacterial infection and associated complications are threats to human health especially
when biofilms form on biomedical devices and artificial implants. Herein, a hybrid …