Self-assembled Nanomaterials for Bacterial Infection Diagnosis and Therapy

Self-assembled nanomaterials are composed of building blocks through non-covalent interaction and spontaneously arranged into well-ordered nanostructures with defined functions. The well-organized arrangement and the two-/three-dimensional nanostructure of the architectures endow the nanomaterials abundant excellent biofunctions for bacterial infection detection and therapy applications. Beyond nature-inspired sources, the hybrid artificial nanomaterials including inorganic nanoparticles, nanosized small synthetic molecules assemblies, self-assembled multilayer polymers are reviewed in this chapter. In addition, the design concept, assembled driving forces, nanostructural effect, antimicrobial mechanism, detection methods are also discussed and summarized. As the promising field, in vivo self-assembled nanomaterials with specific stimuli-responsiveness and surprised biofunctions are also included in this chapter to explore and fabricate fascinated self-assembled nanomaterials.