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 …

Recent advances of carbon dots as new antimicrobial agents

P Li, L Sun, S Xue, D Qu, L An, X Wang, Z Sun - SmartMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many rapid antimicrobial agents have developed
intensively. Carbon dots (CDs), a new type of carbon‐based nanomaterials, shows great …

Highly stable, antiviral, antibacterial cotton textiles via molecular engineering

J Qian, Q Dong, K Chun, D Zhu, X Zhang, Y Mao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cotton textiles are ubiquitous in daily life and are also one of the primary mediums for
transmitting viruses and bacteria. Conventional approaches to fabricating antiviral and …

A reactive copper-organophosphate-MXene heterostructure enabled antibacterial, self-extinguishing and mechanically robust polymer nanocomposites

L Liu, M Zhu, Z Ma, X Xu, SM Seraji, B Yu, Z Sun… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has raised the need for urgent antibacterial requirements
for many commercially important polymers, eg, Epoxy resins (EPs). Meanwhile, intrinsic …

Antiviral properties of copper and its alloys to inactivate covid-19 virus: a review

V Govind, S Bharadwaj, MR Sai Ganesh, J Vishnu… - Biometals, 2021 - Springer
Copper (Cu) and its alloys are prospective materials in fighting covid-19 virus and several
microbial pandemics, due to its excellent antiviral as well as antimicrobial properties. Even …

Masks for COVID‐19

W Deng, Y Sun, X Yao, K Subramanian… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sustainable solutions on fabricating and using a face mask to block the severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) spread during this coronavirus …

Electrospinning research and products: The road and the way forward

AM Al-Dhahebi, JK Ling, SG Krishnan… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Electrospinning is one of the most accessed nanofabrication techniques during the last three
decades, attributed to its viability for the mass production of continuous nanofibers with …

[HTML][HTML] Review of the untapped potentials of antimicrobial materials in the construction sector

SK Kirthika, G Goel, A Matthews, S Goel - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbes can influence the durability of civil engineering structures. Damage caused by
microbes (known as biodeterioration) results in compromised structural integrity causing …

Current development in biomaterials—hydroxyapatite and bioglass for applications in biomedical field: a review

DG Filip, VA Surdu, AV Paduraru… - Journal of Functional …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Inorganic biomaterials, including different types of metals and ceramics are widely used in
various fields due to their biocompatibility, bioactivity, and bioresorbable capacity. In recent …

Smart materials enabled with artificial intelligence for healthcare wearables

Y Zheng, N Tang, R Omar, Z Hu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Contemporary medicine suffers from many shortcomings in terms of successful disease
diagnosis and treatment, both of which rely on detection capacity and timing. The lack of …