Antibacterial Biomaterials for Medical Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Microbial infection poses a great threat to human health. Over the past century, antibiotic therapy has played a crucial role in antimicrobial treatment. However, the overuse of antibiotics has led to the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant microbes, posing a great challenge to clinical treatment. Therefore, it is crucial to develop novel antimicrobial biomaterials with potent antimicrobial activity and biosafety against antibiotic-resistant microbes and novel technologies and strategies to address the challenge of drug-resistant microorganisms. The aim of this Special Issue is to discuss the advances and applications of antimicrobial biomaterials, including, but not limited to, addressing microbial infections, bacterial biofilm infections, antibiotic resistance, and the biosafety of antimicrobial drugs. Topics of interest include the following:

• Perspectives for addressing microbe-associated infections and biofilm infections;
• Novel technologies and strategies to mitigate microbial resistance;
• Infection models investigating biomaterial interactions;
• Microbial response to the surfaces of implantable materials and medical devices;
• Antibacterial and antifungal peptides and the related polymeric materials;
• Antimicrobial nanotechnology applied to medical materials;
• New antimicrobial strategies, including drug combination, drug-delivery, and drug modification;
• Antibacterial stewardship on biomaterial design and development;
• Polymerization method for synthetic antimicrobial polymers.

Research and review articles on antimicrobial biomaterials for medical applications are welcome. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.

Dr. Min Zhou
Dr. Yueming Wu
Guest Editors

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• microbe infections
• biofilm infections
• antimicrobial peptides
• antimicrobial biomaterials
• antibiotic resistance
• antimicrobial nanotechnology
• antimicrobial surface
• drug combination
• polymerization method