State of the art in the antibacterial and antiviral applications of carbon-based polymeric nanocomposites
Authors
Díez Pascual, Ana MaríaIdentifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/50144DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910511
ISSN: 1422-0067
Date
2021-09-29Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Química Analítica, Química Física e Ingeniería QuímicaFunders
Comunidad de Madrid
Bibliographic citation
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, v. 22, n. 19, p. 10511
Keywords
Antibacterial activitypolymer nanocomposites
Carbon nanomaterials
Fullerenes
Graphene
Carbon nanotubes
Synergic effects
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM/Estímulo a la Excelencia para Profesores Universitarios Permanentes/EPU-INV%2F2020%2F012/ES/
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
MDPI, 2021
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
The development of novel approaches to prevent bacterial infection is essential for enhancing everyday life. Carbon nanomaterials display exceptional optical, thermal, and mechanical properties combined with antibacterial ones, which make them suitable for diverse fields, including biomedical and food applications. Nonetheless, their practical applications as antimicrobial agents have not been fully explored yet, owing to their relatively poor dispersibility, expensiveness, and scalability changes. To solve these issues, they can be integrated within polymeric matrices, which also exhibit antimicrobial activity in some cases. This review describes the state of the art in the antibacterial applications of polymeric nanocomposites reinforced with 0D fullerenes, 1D carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and 2D graphene (G) and its derivatives such as graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). Given that a large number of such nanocomposites are available, only the most illustrative examples are described, and their mechanisms of antimicrobial activity are discussed. Finally, some applications of these antimicrobial polymeric nanocomposites are reviewed.
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