A. Emelyanenko, Pooyan Makvandi, Madineh Moradialvand, L. Boinovich
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Abstract
The use of materials with extreme wettability discussed in this brief review may become one of the most promising strategies to combat the spreading of bacterial infections through touch surfaces not only in medical facilities but also in public areas, including educational institutions, supermarkets, fitness centers, etc. The extreme wettability coatings have both a nonspecific bactericidal effect against various types of bacteria, and a number of more specific mechanisms that work against certain strains depending on the type of metal. At the same time, such coatings are effective against various ways of spreading the bacterial cells, be it through the deposition of an aerosol created when patients cough or sneeze, or through contact transfer by patients’ hands. In this review, we briefly summarize the existing strategies for producing materials with extreme wettability by aqueous media and overview their main characteristics. Then the mechanisms behind the bactericidal effect of these materials are discussed in detail jointly with the analysis of some examples of testing the antibacterial efficiency of extreme wettability surfaces.
Surface InnovationsCHEMISTRY, PHYSICALMATERIALS SCIENCE, COAT-MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS
CiteScore
5.80
自引率
22.90%
发文量
66
期刊介绍:
The material innovations on surfaces, combined with understanding and manipulation of physics and chemistry of functional surfaces and coatings, have exploded in the past decade at an incredibly rapid pace.
Superhydrophobicity, superhydrophlicity, self-cleaning, self-healing, anti-fouling, anti-bacterial, etc., have become important fundamental topics of surface science research community driven by curiosity of physics, chemistry, and biology of interaction phenomenon at surfaces and their enormous potential in practical applications. Materials having controlled-functionality surfaces and coatings are important to the manufacturing of new products for environmental control, liquid manipulation, nanotechnological advances, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, biotechnology, and many others, and are part of the most promising technological innovations of the twenty-first century.