Adhesion of quantum dots-induced membrane damage of Escherichia coli

One-step synthesis of silver nanoparticles using carbon dots as reducing and stabilizing agents and their antibacterial mechanisms

“…Microcalorimetry is a useful tool to study the microorganism metabolism for it can easily record the specific growth power-time curves of a microorganism because of its universal, integral, non-destructive and highly sensitive property, which has been proved by our group [41][42][43]. Figure 3B).…”

Necrotic cell death induced by the protein-mediated intercellular uptake of CdTe quantum dots

“…Cell membrane is generally to serve as a permeability barrier, which prevents the entry of toxic compounds but allows the influx of nutrient molecules (Lai et al, 2013). Small molecules move across the cell membrane through directly diffuse driven by their concentration gradients, integral membrane protein pumps or ion channels, whereas nanoscale biomolecules are conventionally pass through the cell membrane by endocytosis (Zhao et al, 2011).…”

Stable poly(St-co-BA) nanoemulsion polymerization for high performance antibacterial coatings in the presence of dioctyldimethylammonium chloride

“…Interestingly, G MAP-6-MAP was added to polymers resulted in the antibacterial activity of EG 3 being better than EG 0 . This effect may be due to G MAP-6-MAP providing enough positive charges to the polymers that all them to gather around and attack the tested bacteria [57].…”