Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Surface-kinetics mediated mesoporous multipods for enhanced bacterial adhesion and inhibition

  • Tiancong Zhao,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Peiyuan Wang,
  • Benhao Li,
  • Runfeng Lin,
  • Areej Abdulkareem Al-Khalaf,
  • Wael N. Hozzein,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Xiaomin Li,
  • Dongyuan Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12378-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Control of composite nanoparticle topology can be difficult. Here the authors control the topological structure of mesoporous multipods by controlling the number of nucleation sites, and they used the resultant nanoparticles for bacterial adhesion, segregation and antibiotic delivery.