Journal
Discover Materials
Discover Materials is an open access journal publishing research across all fields relevant to materials, and areas where materials are activators for innovation and disruption.
Resistant organisms can spread quickly through healthcare facilities, animals, food, and the environment (soil and water), making the treatment of certain infections in people and animals more challenging and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and death. Antimicrobial resistance is one of the top global public health and development threats, and it Is estimated that it was directly responsible for 1.27 million global deaths in 2019 and contributed to 4.95 million deaths.
The search for materials to prevent, detect, and respond to AMR is a substantial interest in multidisciplinary science, including biology, microbiology, chemistry, and materials science.
Discover Materials invites you to submit papers, full-length review articles, or short communications to a Collection on Advanced Materials combating antimicrobial resistance. This Collection encompasses all the areas of functional polymeric materials targeted to fight microbial infections and avoid triggering resistance, including but not limited to topics about membranes, films, nanoparticles, nanoemulsions, mesoporous platforms, fibers, and scaffolds. Polymeric materials enhanced with different strategies, such as metallic nanoparticles, are also welcome. Applications in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and controlled release are the focus of the present issue. We are interested in and invite the community to submit original research articles on some of these topics.
Keywords:
Antimicrobial resistance; Polymers; Nanoparticles; Films; Scaffolds; Hydrogels; Biofilm; Microorganisms
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María Luisa Del Prado Audelo
Researcher at Civil and Sustainability Technologies Department, Engineering and Sciences School of the Institute of Technology and Higher Education of Monterrey. Founding member of Mexican network of biomaterials and organ and tissue engineering (Red BIOT). She was selected as one of the 25 women in science in Latin America 2023 by 3M. Winner of various awards in the pharmaceutical industry. She maintains an h-index of 23 with more than 1500 citations. Her research addressed the study of bioactive polymeric materials for controlled release, tissue engineering, and active packaging to combat microbial infections and antibiotic resistance.
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