Nanotechnology in Microbiology
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 290
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanomaterials; bioengineering; microbiology; antimicrobial nanomaterials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The emergence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is a global health crisis, threatening to undermine the efficacy with which we can treat infectious disease in the modern era. Antibiotics, the “miracle drug” of modern times, are rapidly losing effectiveness, driving the need for alternative preventative measures and therapies to combat infection. Bacteria mutate constantly, unrelentingly driving the mechanisms for antibiotic resistance, whereas the production of new antimicrobial chemotherapies has slowed substantially in recent years. This mismatch between microbial evolution and innovation in antibiotics has triggered researchers to turn to nanotechnology for novel solutions. On the nanometer scale, materials are engendered with new physico-chemical properties that can be exploited to either augment the potency of existing antibiotics or create entirely new biocidal agents independent of drugs. Nanomaterials such as nanoparticles, nanorods, nanowires, and 2D materials can act as drug carriers, enhancing the antibiotic payload or exert other lethal damage to bacteria via nanomaterial–membrane interactions. Similarly, nanostructured surfaces have been shown to lethally tear apart contacting bacterial cell membranes. Nanostructured topographies may be applied to the surfaces of implants and medical devices, even to high-touch surfaces in public spaces to evade the incidence and transmission of bacterial infection. With further research and development, nanotechnology and nanomaterials may become the gold standard for prevention and treatment of bacterial infections in the era of antibiotic resistance.
This Special Issue on Nanotechnology in Microbiology aims to cover research related, but not limited, to:
- Micro-nanostructured antifouling and antibacterial surfaces;
- Antimicrobial nanomaterials;
- Nanomaterial-based diagnostics and therapeutics for bacterial infections;
- Mechanisms of antibacterial action of nanomaterials.
Dr. Denver Linklater
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Mechano-bactericidal
- Nanomaterials
- Nanobiotechnology
- Biomimetics
- Nano-microbiology
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