Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Antipathogenic properties and applications of low-dimensional materials

  • Z. L. Shaw,
  • Sruthi Kuriakose,
  • Samuel Cheeseman,
  • Michael D. Dickey,
  • Jan Genzer,
  • Andrew J. Christofferson,
  • Russell J. Crawford,
  • Chris F. McConville,
  • James Chapman,
  • Vi Khanh Truong,
  • Aaron Elbourne,
  • Sumeet Walia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23278-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global problem and low dimensional materials have emerged as a potential solution. Here, the authors review the progress which has been made on low dimensional antimicrobials looking at the materials synthesis, modes of action and currently applications.