A "Sense-and-Treat" Hydrogel Used for Treatment of Bacterial Infection on the Solid Matrix
Zhengqing Yan1,2, Peng Shi1,2, Jinsong Ren1
1Laboratory of Chemical Biology and State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130022, China.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|August 28, 2015
Abstract:
A "sense-and-treat" hydrogel is constructed for sensing and inhibiting bacterial infection. Without bacteria, the hydrogel emits green fluorescence. With bacterial infection, the hydrogel emits red fluorescence and releases Vancomycin to kill bacteria.
