ReviewACS omega2023
Designing Effective Antimicrobial Nanostructured Surfaces: Highlighting the Lack of Consensus in the Literature.
Review in ACS omega, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Anti-Biofilm Performance of Resin Nanopillars Inspired from Cicada Wing Surface forBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A supervised machine learning tool to predict the bactericidal efficiency of nanostructured surface.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2024Article
- [Advances in nanostructured surfaces for enhanced mechano-bactericidal applications].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2024Review
- Two-photon lithography for customized microstructured surfaces and their influence on wettability and bacterial load.3D printing in medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Research into nanostructured materials, inspired by the topography of certain insect wings, has provided a potential pathway toward drug-free antibacterial surfaces, which may be vital in the ongoing battle against antimicrobial resistance. However, to produce viable antibacterial nanostructured surfaces, we must first understand the bactericidal mechanism of action and how to optimize them to kill the widest range of microorganisms. This review discusses the parameters of nanostructured surfaces that have been shown to influence their bactericidal efficiency and highlights the highly variable nature of many of the findings. A large-scale analysis of the literature is also presented, which further shows a lack of clarity in what is understood about the factors influencing bactericidal efficiency. The potential reasons for the ambiguity, including how the killing effect may be a result of multiple factors and issues with nonstandardized testing of the antibacterial properties of nanostructured surfaces, are then discussed. Finally, a standard method for testing of antimicrobial killing is proposed that will allow comparison between studies and enable a deeper understanding about nanostructured surfaces and how to optimize their bactericidal efficiency.
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