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Antimicrobial Photodynamic Inactivation Using Topical and Superhydrophobic Sensitizer Techniques: A Perspective from Diffusion in Biofilms†.
- Source :
- Photochemistry & Photobiology; Nov/Dec2021, Vol. 97 Issue 6, p1266-1277, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This review describes nanoparticle and dye diffusion in bacterial biofilms in the context of antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation (aPDI). aPDI requires the diffusion of a photosensitizer (Sens) into the biofilm and subsequent photoactivation of oxygen for the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that inactivate microbes. Molecular diffusion in biofilms has been long investigated, whereas this review is intended to draw a logical link between diffusion in biofilms and ROS, a combination that leads to the current state of aPDI and superhydrophobic aPDI (SH‐aPDI). This review should be of interest to photochemists, photobiologists and researchers in material and antimicrobial sciences as is ties together conventional aPDI with the emerging subject of SH‐aPDI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- REACTIVE oxygen species
PHOTOSENSITIZERS
MATERIALS science
BIOFILMS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00318655
- Volume :
- 97
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Photochemistry & Photobiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154222478
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/php.13461