Potential of Manuka Honey as a Natural Polyelectrolyte to Develop Biomimetic Nanostructured Meshes With Antimicrobial Properties
- Submitting institution
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University of Ulster
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 78225257
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3389/fbioe.2019.00344
- Title of journal
- Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology
- Article number
- 344
- First page
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- Volume
- 7
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2296-4185
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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6
- Research group(s)
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C - Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The paper is an international collaboration proposing a new surface modification nanotechnology. It is significant as it is the first demonstrating the use of Manuka Honey as a polyelectrolyte to develop “sandwiches” meshes with enhanced antimicrobial properties as alternative to antibiotics. The paper has gained massive attention and widely spread across relevant media networks nationally (e.g. Sky News online; Belfast Telegraph; ITV news, BBC Radio Scotland) and internationally, and was carried by 87% of all Frontiers articles. It represents one of the outcomes of the EPSRC-NIHR project (EP/N027345/1) and contributed to a talk at UK-Russia workshop (British Council sponsored event).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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