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Small-molecule-hosting nanocomposite films with multiple bacteria-triggered responses

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 ...