Specialized Coatings Interacting with Human Pathogens

Dear Colleagues,

Even ever-improving sanitation and preventative care have done little to lower the baseline-threshold of implant-related infections. Furthermore, with the increasing use of medical implants in the general population, this baseline of infections will contribute to a rising number of actual cases of infections. Thus, to better understand how to reduce the number of infections, we must first understand how human pathogens, such as bacteria and fungi, attach to surfaces and then subsequently colonise them. This understanding goes then herein with how we can ward off pathogens from doing what they have evolved to do by using novel coatings.

Therefore, the main subject of this Special Issue seeks manuscripts which use specialised coatings that either study, prevent or eradicate human pathogens from surfaces. Manuscripts which use thin-film deposition methods, such as PVD or PECVD, are particularly encouraged. The same applies for manuscripts that provide a mechanistic understanding of how human pathogens colonise surfaces & form biofilm and how this process can be changed via specialized coatings.

Dr. Thomas D. Michl
Dr. Akash Bachhuka
Dr. Behnam Akhavan
Guest Editors

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