“…Because of the harmful effects of bacterial infections on human and animal health, scientists have been focusing for decades to develop antibacterial materials. Several antimicrobial agents have been discovered by scientists, including antibiotics (Bazán Henostroza et al, 2022;Ginebra et al, 2012a;Wang et al, 2021), peptides (Kai et al, 2018), free halogens (Li et al, 2016), metal oxides (Pachaiappan et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2019), graphene oxide, quaternary ammonium salts, and N-halamines (Bu et al, 2021). Despite the efforts of researchers to find new antibacterial agents, antibiotics remain to date the most commonly prescribed agents by clinicians for patients with infectious diseases.…”