“…In contrast to conventional antibiotics, the biomaterials sector has witnessed the genesis of various kinds of innovative antimicrobial agents (Regiel‐Futyra et al, ). Materials like peptides (Marr, Gooderham, & Hancock, ; Meher, Sahu, Saini, & Rao, ), zinc/zinc oxide (ZnO) (Bhattacharjee et al, ; Cai et al, ; Raghupathi, Koodali, & Manna, ), N‐halamines (Dong et al, ; Kang et al, ), quaternary ammonium salt (Munoz‐Bonilla & Fernández‐García, ; Timofeeva & Kleshcheva, ) and povidone−iodine (PVP − I 2 ) (Gao, Wang, Liu, & Du, ) have been effectively used to treat surgical site infections (SSI) in orthopedics (Gao et al, ). However, compared with antibiotics and other antibacterial agents, silver (Ag) is recognized as a universal and traditional bactericidal agent that has shown a useful bactericidal effect on a broad spectrum of microbial species over decades (Chernousova & Epple, ).…”