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(A) Photothermal antibacterial pathway of copper sulfide nanosheets. Reprinted from J Colloid Interface Sci. Volume: 607. Mutalik C, Okoro G, Krisnawati DI, et al. Copper sulfide with morphology-dependent photodynamic and photothermal antibacterial activities. 1825–1835, Copyright (2022), with permission from Elsevier.⁵⁴ (B) Antibacterial mechanism of 1T- and 2H-MoS₂ nanosheets (NSs) by photothermal therapy. Reprinted with permission from Mutalik C, Okoro G, Chou HL, et al. Phase-dependent 1T/2H-MoS2 nanosheets for effective photothermal killing of bacteria. ACS Sustain Chem Eng. 2022;(10):8949–8957. Creative common.¹⁰⁰ (C) MoS₂ NSs (metallic 1T/1T’ or semiconducting 2H), and their crystal-phase effects on photothermally enhanced sonodynamic antibacterial treatments as investigated by in vitro and in vivo methods. Reproduced with permission from Chen H, He X, Zhou Z, et al. Metallic phase enabling MoS2 nanosheets as an efficient sonosensitizer for photothermal-enhanced sonodynamic antibacterial therapy. J Nanobiotechnol. 2022;(20):136. Creative Common.¹¹⁰