Trap then kill
A contact-active antimicrobial coating that uses bacterial extracellular polymeric substances as decoys and antibiotics as payloads, enriching bacteria without quorum sensing signals and killing them efficiently.
Yan, Qi · Xiaomei, Liu · Liu, Yi · Huang, Jing · Zhang, Botao · Wang, Zhijuan · Wen, Jianxin · Li, Hua
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 2025