Bioactive silver phosphate/polyindole nanocomposites
Soumik Podder, Samrat Paul, Piyali Basak, Bowen Xie, Nigel J. Fullwood, Sara J. Baldock, Ying Yang, John G. Hardy, Chandan Kumar Ghosh
Abstract
Materials capable of releasing reactive oxygen species (ROS) can display antibacterial and anticancer activity, and may also have antioxidant capacity if they suppress intracellular ROS (<italic>e.g.</italic> nitric oxide, NO) resulting in anti-inflammatory activity.
Topics & Concepts
Reactive oxygen speciesNitric oxideChemistryAntibacterial activityPhosphateIntracellularNanocompositeCombinatorial chemistryBiochemistryNanotechnologyBacteriaMaterials scienceOrganic chemistryBiologyGeneticsAdvanced Nanomaterials in CatalysisBone Tissue Engineering MaterialsNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics