Bacterial infectionespecially on surfaces of transplants post surgeon poses a major threat and may lead to a secondary curing surgeon, which causes extra pain and danger for patients. To avoid this, it is desirable to have surfaces intrinsically antibacterial. Recent emergence and spread of drug resistant bacteria further necessitates antibacterial surfaces with activity modes differing from those of antibiotics and thus less prone to evoke resistance. To this end, we herein developantibacterial surfaces which actviaphotothermal effects and thus may be potent even against drug resistant bacteria.Priliminary results from UV-vis-NIR spectrometry and bacterial viability assays will be presented.

Antibacterial surface acting via photothermal effects

249th National Meeting (2015)

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