Journal
ADVANCED HEALTHCARE MATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202100775
Keywords
antibacterial photocatalytic therapy; covalent organic frameworks; fish skin; photosensitizers; reactive oxygen species
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21835005, U1862109]
- National Youth Natural Science Foundation of China [21905189]
- General Program Foundation of Jiangsu Province University Science Research Project [18KJB150028]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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TPDA, an acridine-based COF photosensitizer, has been synthesized with multiple active sites and shows high antibacterial activities, wide optical absorption spectrum, and efficient protection against skin infections in fish within a short time.
Antibiotic resistance is considered as one of the serious public health issues. Antibacterial photocatalytic therapy, a clinically proven antibacterial therapy, is gaining increasing attention in recent years owing to its high efficacy. Here, an acridine-based covalent organic framework (COF) photosensitizer, named TPDA, with multiple active sites is synthesized via Schiff base condensation between 2,4,6-triformylphloroglucinol (TFP) and 3,6-diaminoacridine (DAA). Owing to the increased conjugation effect of the COF skeleton and outstanding light harvesting ability of DAA, TPDA exhibits a narrow optical band gap (1.6 eV), enhancing light energy transformation and conferring a wide optical absorption spectrum (intensity arbitrary unit > 0.8) ranging from the UV to near-infrared region. Moreover, TPDA shows high antibacterial activities against both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria within a short time (10 min) of light irradiation and is found to efficiently protect fish from skin infections. Molecular dynamics simulation data show that the introduction of DAA and TFP facilitates the interaction between TPDA and bacteria and is conducive to reactive oxygen species migration, which further improves the antimicrobial performance. These findings indicate the potential of TPDA as a novel photosensitive material for photodynamic therapy.
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