New Antibacterial Nanostructured Coatings for Biomedical Applications
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 15657
Special Issue Editor
Interests: implant-associated infections; anti-infective substances and strategies; virulence factors; bacterial biofilm; bacterial molecular epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Bacterial colonization on biomedical devices, together with the worrisome problem of antibiotic resistance, arouse interest in the development of anti-infective materials. Among the promising applications, engineered antibacterial nanostructured coatings represent an innovative perspective in the field of biomedical application. These nanostructured coatings can be mainly categorized into organic (e.g., liposomes, polymeric micelles and polymeric nanoparticles, lipid-based nanoparticles), which are implicated in drug delivery, and inorganic (e.g., ions), which cause free-radical stress in bacteria. Other approaches in combination with nanostructured coatings, such as antimicrobial peptides, antimicrobial oligonucleotides, and natural compounds, are encouraged. Indeed, modern medicine has rediscovered natural resources and relies on their different molecular backgrounds to recognize molecules with antimicrobial properties. These molecules could be used in nanocoating technologies for medical devices, for food nano-packaging, and in the green synthesis of nanoparticles.
Paper topics might include the following:
- Biomaterials and new antibacterial agents and novel approaches with nanostructured coatings;
- Biomedical applications and medical devices;
- Green synthesis of nanoparticles/nanocoatings
- Phytocompound-based nanostructured coatings;
- Food nano-packaging;
- New antimicrobials from natural sources;
- Design and synthesis/realization of antibacterial nanomaterials;
- Material and physicochemical characterization of the modified surfaces, functional properties, and performance in terms of enhanced adsorption, drug efficiency, and biodistribution;
- Antibacterial activity studies;
- Cytotoxicity assays in human cells and tissues.
Dr. Stefano Ravaioli
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antibacterial nanostructured coatings
- medical devices
- biomaterials
- physicochemical haracterization
- antibacterial mechanisms
- antibiofilm and antibacterial activity
- cytotoxicity
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