Antimicrobial Activity of Medical Materials, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antimicrobial Materials and Surfaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 635
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial biofilms; biofilm prevention; alternative therapies; antimicrobial materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The first edition of this Special Issue, entitled “Antimicrobial Activity of Medical Materials”, was published in 2022. It is a collection with seven excellent papers, and its success has encouraged us to open a second edition with the same topic.
As a continuation of the first Special Issue, this second edition aims to publish review and research papers touching on any antimicrobial medical devices/surfaces, as well as on the various methods and preclinical and clinical trials developed to assess their efficiency.
Dr. Tânia Grainha
Dr. Susana Lopes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial surfaces
- copper
- silver
- surface functionalization/modifications
- biofilm prevention
- medical textiles
- efficiency
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