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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Today. 2014 Aug 1;9(4):478–498. doi: 10.1016/j.nantod.2014.06.003

Figure 7.

Figure 7

Strategies of the application of antimicrobial nanomaterials in medical devices, including (A) surface coating by direct deposition, (B) surface coating by blending antibacterial nanomaterials into a polymer coating, and (C) embedding of antimicrobial nanomaterials into the bulk matrix of medical devices.