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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

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Nanoantibiotics developed by the Liang lab at TTUHSC are tiny “hairy” spheres comprised of polymer brushes (blue) covalently grafted atop silica nanoparticles (black). Once they land on bacterial membranes (headgroups in green and white; hydrocarbon tails in golden), the bundled polymer brushes act as daggers to pierce the bacterial membranes.

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