Abstract
Antibacterial materials and surfaces designed and built using the toolbox of nanotechnology are becoming the object of an increasingly boosting interest, responding to the pan-drug resistant bacteria emergency [...]
Highlights
Antibacterial materials and surfaces designed and built using the toolbox of nanotechnology are becoming the object of an increasingly boosting interest, responding to the pan-drug resistant bacteria emergency [1]
Inorganic nanoparticles made of silver [9], gold [10], CuS [11], Prussian blue [12], just to name a few selected nanomaterials, can be used to prepare antibacterial surfaces exploiting a completely different approach, i.e., hyperthermia given by the photo-thermal effects connected to their strong extinction bands [13], and this can be used to efficiently kill bacteria [14]
In the example provided in this Special Issue, the large specific area, nature of micropores, and absorption performances typical of exfoliated graphite were used to prepare a new antibacterial composite loaded with silver nanoparticles [17]
Summary
Antibacterial materials and surfaces designed and built using the toolbox of nanotechnology are becoming the object of an increasingly boosting interest, responding to the pan-drug resistant bacteria emergency [1]. The most popular and widely exploited antibacterial nanomaterial has been silver nanoparticles (AgNP).
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