Pavlukhina, Svetlana; Zhuk, Iryna; Mentbayeva, Almagul; Rautenberg, Emily; Chang, Wei; Yu, Xiaojun; Van de Belt-Gritter, Betsy; Busscher, Henk J; Van der Mei, Henny C; Sukhishvili, Svetlana A
(NPG Asia Materials, 2014)
We report pH/bacteria-responsive nanocomposite coatings with multiple mechanisms of antibacterial protection that include the permanent retention of antimicrobials, bacteria-triggered release of antibiotics and bacteria-induced ...