ReviewACS nano2025
Advances in Antimicrobial Applications of Ag, Cu, and AgCu Nanoparticle-Doped Polymeric Composite Materials: A Comprehensive Review.
Review in ACS nano, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Advanced freeze-thaw production of fungal chitosan and its Ag-Cu nanocomposite: enhanced antimicrobial activity andRSC advances · 2026Article
- Design, synthesis, and biomedical evaluation of Ag/Cu bimetallic MOFs for controlled drug delivery and synergistic therapeutic applications.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Antioxidant and antibacterial properties of transition metals and metal oxides for medical uses: mechanisms, design strategies, and biomedical perspectives.Nanoscale advances · 2026Review
- Advancements in Technologies Targeting Horizontal Gene TransferRoutes to Control Drug Resistance Evolution.ACS bio & med chem Au · 2026Review
- Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology: Highlights from the 2025 Editor's Choice Collection.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Metal-Functionalized Nanozymes in Antibacterial Wound Management: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Curcumin-loaded copper/iron bimetallic nanoparticle-incorporated hydrogel scaffold: a sequential microenvironment reprogramming platform for accelerated chronic wound healing.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2026Article
- Ag-CuO Nanozymes Superior to Commercial Silver-Based Dressings: Synergistic Antibacterial Therapy via PTS-Mediated Starvation and Cuproptosis-Like Death.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
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Abstract
The growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has driven the search for alternative strategies to conventional antibiotics, with metallic nanoparticles (NPs), particularly silver (Ag), copper (Cu), and their bimetallic hybrids (AgCu), emerging as promising candidates. These nanoparticles exhibit strong, multifaceted antimicrobial activity and, when integrated into polymeric matrices, form composite materials that offer enhanced stability, controlled release, and broad applicability across healthcare, food safety, and industrial sectors. This review highlights the major synthetic routes for the production of Ag, Cu, and AgCu nanoparticles and discusses their integration into polymeric systems. Furthermore, the antimicrobial mechanisms of these nanomaterials are explored. Finally, the review emphasizes the potential of these nanocomposites to serve as next-generation antimicrobial surfaces, wound dressings, and functional materials, while addressing key synthesis challenges and proposing future research directions to optimize their performance and expand their applications.
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