The researchers behind the new study, from Winston - Salem State University in the US and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in Malaysia, have found that adding similar, but smaller polycationic molecules onto a new kind of material called carbon
nanodots makes them even better at killing drug - resistant bacteria.
Not exact matches
The team wanted to
make the smaller, more flexible molecules better and efficient antimicrobials by attaching them to the carbon
nanodot scaffolding, so they built two different molecules: CND - PAM1 and CND - PAM2.
«Our study shows that carbon
nanodots can serve as a molecular scaffold for building antimicrobial materials; it's exciting because carbon
nanodots are relatively easy and cheap to
make, they're non-toxic and soluble in water.»
«We know a lot about diamond, so we can
make diamond
nanodots.
We don't yet know how to
make Q - carbon
nanodots or microneedles.
If Q - carbon is harder than diamond, why would someone want to
make diamond
nanodots instead of Q - carbon ones?