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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: Nanoscale. 2021 Feb 4;13(6):3374–3411. doi: 10.1039/d0nr08353d

Figure 14. Delivery and Controlled Release Strategies Enabled by Plasmonic Nano-Antimicrobials.

Figure 14.

(A) Scheme and TEM micrograph of Ag NP-polymersome system for synergistic bacteria inactivation of Ag and ampicillin. Adapted from Ref. 212 with permission from The Royal Society of Chemistry.

(B-E) Light controlled release scheme (B), TEM micrographs before (top) and after 1-hour (bottom) illumination with 430 nm LED (C), Ru release curves (D), and inactivation LRV curves for Arthrobacter sp. (E) with a lipid-wrapped Ag-[Ru(bpy)3]2+ photoreactor system. Reprinted with permission from Ref. 118. Copyright (2020) American Chemical Society.

(F-H) Hyase-facilitated HA degradation and release scheme (F), Ag+ release curve (G) and inactivation curve of drug-resistant E. coli (H) by PCN-224-Ag-HA. Reproduced from Ref. 15. © 2019 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.