Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
Despite being very simple organisms, bacteria possess an outstanding ability to adapt to different environments. Their long evolutionary history, being exposed to vastly different physicochemical surroundings, allowed them to detect and respond to a wide range of signals including biochemical, mecha...
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| author | Margarida M. Fernandes Margarida M. Fernandes Estela O. Carvalho Estela O. Carvalho Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez |
| author_facet | Margarida M. Fernandes Margarida M. Fernandes Estela O. Carvalho Estela O. Carvalho Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez |
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| description | Despite being very simple organisms, bacteria possess an outstanding ability to adapt to different environments. Their long evolutionary history, being exposed to vastly different physicochemical surroundings, allowed them to detect and respond to a wide range of signals including biochemical, mechanical, electrical, and magnetic ones. Taking into consideration their adapting mechanisms, it is expected that novel materials able to provide bacteria with specific stimuli in a biomimetic context may tailor their behavior and make them suitable for specific applications in terms of anti-microbial and pro-microbial approaches. This review maintains that electroactive smart materials will be a future approach to be explored in microbiology to obtain novel strategies for fighting the emergence of live threatening antibiotic resistance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e68450533fdb4a05b2beedc3416a44032022-12-22T00:02:35ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology2296-41852019-10-01710.3389/fbioe.2019.00277487932Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial ResistanceMargarida M. Fernandes0Margarida M. Fernandes1Estela O. Carvalho2Estela O. Carvalho3Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez4Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez5Centre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalCentre of Physics, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalCentre of Biological Engineering, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalCentre of Physics, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalBCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, UPV/EHU Science Park, Leioa, SpainIkerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, SpainDespite being very simple organisms, bacteria possess an outstanding ability to adapt to different environments. Their long evolutionary history, being exposed to vastly different physicochemical surroundings, allowed them to detect and respond to a wide range of signals including biochemical, mechanical, electrical, and magnetic ones. Taking into consideration their adapting mechanisms, it is expected that novel materials able to provide bacteria with specific stimuli in a biomimetic context may tailor their behavior and make them suitable for specific applications in terms of anti-microbial and pro-microbial approaches. This review maintains that electroactive smart materials will be a future approach to be explored in microbiology to obtain novel strategies for fighting the emergence of live threatening antibiotic resistance.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00277/fullelectroactive materialsbacteriaantimicrobial resistancephysical stimulibiomimetics |
| spellingShingle | Margarida M. Fernandes Margarida M. Fernandes Estela O. Carvalho Estela O. Carvalho Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology electroactive materials bacteria antimicrobial resistance physical stimuli biomimetics |
| title | Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance |
| title_full | Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance |
| title_fullStr | Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance |
| title_short | Electroactive Smart Materials: Novel Tools for Tailoring Bacteria Behavior and Fight Antimicrobial Resistance |
| title_sort | electroactive smart materials novel tools for tailoring bacteria behavior and fight antimicrobial resistance |
| topic | electroactive materials bacteria antimicrobial resistance physical stimuli biomimetics |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00277/full |
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