Abstract
The rediscovery of the medical uses of silver provides another noticeable example, this time at the interface of chemistry and medicine, of the real (and nonlinear) progress of scientific research. Several new silver-based antimicrobial products have thus been commercialized in the last two decades. Next-generation antibacterials and antivirals of broad scope, low toxicity and affordable cost, we argue in this study, will be based on microencapsulated Ag nanoparticles.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1619-1623 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | ChemMedChem |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 3 Sep 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- antibacterial agents
- antiviral agents
- microencapsulation
- nanoparticles
- silver
- sol-gel
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Medicine
- Pharmacology
- Drug Discovery
- General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- Organic Chemistry