Plasmonic nano-antimicrobials: properties, mechanisms and applications in microbe inactivation and sensing.

ABSTRACT: Bacterial, viral and fungal infections pose serious threats to human health and well-being. The continuous emergence of acute infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microbes and the rapid development of resistances against conventional antimicrobial drugs necessitates the development of new and effective strategies for the safe elimination of microbes in water, food or on surfaces, as well as for the inactivation of pathogenic microbes in human hosts. The need for new antimicrobials has triggered the development of plasmonic nano-antimicrobials that facilitate both light-dependent and -independent microbe inactivation mechanisms. This review introduces the relevant photophysical mechanisms underlying these plasmonic nano-antimicrobials, and provides an overview of how the photoresponses

SUBMITTER: An X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8349509 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature