Tao Huang

Using inorganic nanoparticles to fight fungal infections in the antimicrobial resistant era.

Tao Huang, Xin Li, Michael Maier, Neil M O'Brien-Simpson, Daniel E Heath, Andrea J O'Connor

Journal article  |  2023  |  Acta Biomater

Fungal infections pose a serious threat to human health and livelihoods. The number and variety of clinically approved antifungal ..

Star-Peptide Polymers are Multi-Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacteria Killers

Wenyi Li, Sara Hadjigol, Alicia Rasines Mazo, James Holden, Jason Lenzo, Steven J Shirbin, Anders Barlow, Sadegh Shabani, Tao Huang, Eric C Reynolds, Greg G Qiao, Neil M O'Brien-Simpson

Journal article  |  2022  |  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

Antibiotic resistance in bacteria, especially Gram-positive bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus, is gaining considerable momentum ..

Current status and outlook of biodegradable metals in neuroscience and their potential applications as cerebral vascular stent materials

Ming Li, Miaowen Jiang, Yuan Gao, Yufeng Zheng, Zhi Liu, Chen Zhou, Tao Huang, Xuenan Gu, Ang Li, Jiancheng Fang, Xunming Ji

Journal article  |  2022  |  BIOACTIVE MATERIALS

Over the past two decades, biodegradable metals (BMs) have emerged as promising materials to fabricate temporary biomedical device..

Multifunctional Antimicrobial Polypeptide-Selenium Nanoparticles Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Tao Huang, James A Holden, Eric C Reynolds, Daniel E Heath, Neil M O'Brien-Simpson, Andrea J O'Connor

Journal article  |  2020  |  ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a severe threat to human health. The World Health Organization's Global Antimicrobial Surveillan..

Antimicrobial nanoparticle coatings for medical implants: Design challenges and prospects

Xin Li, Tao Huang, Daniel E Heath, Neil M O'Brien-Simpson, Andrea J O'Connor

Journal article  |  2020  |  BIOINTERPHASES

Microbial colonization, infection, and biofilm formation are major complications in the use of implants and are the predominant ri..

Enhanced Antibacterial Activity of Se Nanoparticles Upon Coating with Recombinant Spider Silk Protein eADF4(kappa 16)

Tao Huang, Sushma Kumari, Heike Herold, Hendrik Bargel, Tamara B Aigner, Daniel E Heath, Neil M O'Brien-Simpson, Andrea J O'Connor, Thomas Scheibel

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Nanomedicine

Purpose: Selenium nanoparticles (Se NPs) are promising antibacterial agents to tackle the growing problem of antimicrobial resista..

Engineering highly effective antimicrobial selenium nanoparticles through control of particle size

Tao Huang, James A Holden, Daniel E Heath, Neil M O'Brien-Simpson, Andrea J O'Connor

Journal article  |  2019  |  Nanoscale

The overuse of antibiotics has induced the rapid development of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. As a result, antibiotic efficac..

Electrochemical Strategy for Flexible and Highly Conductive Carbon Films: The Role of 3-Dimensional Graphene/Graphite Aggregates.

Haoguang Huang, Peng He, Tao Huang, Shike Hu, Tao Xu, Hongyu Gu, Siwei Yang, Lixin Song, Xiaoming Xie, Guqiao Ding

Journal article  |  2019  |  ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

Conductive carbon films with good flexibility are ever-increasingly desired for electronics. Previous efforts relying on graphene ..

Selenium nanoparticles as antibacterial agents for potential application in chronic wound healing

Tao Huang

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2019

Chronic wounds have become a global problem. The importance of microbial colonies in delaying chronic wound healing has been highl..