Graphite nanoplatelets on medical devices kill bacteria and prevent infections
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 11:10
in Health & Medicine
Graphite nanoplatelets integrated into plastic medical surfaces can prevent infections, killing 99.99 per cent of bacteria which try to attach—a cheap and viable potential solution to a problem which affects millions, costs huge amounts of time and money, and accelerates antibiotic resistance. This is according to research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in the journal Small.