Fig. 1
From: Bioengineered materials with selective antimicrobial toxicity in biomedicine
Schematic illustration of the selective toxicity of a material to combat specific microbes. The cell wall binding domains can selectively attach and kill pathogenic bacteria. Due to the presence of the attached ligand to silver nanoparticles, the nanoplatform can specifically bind to the pathogen as targeting ligands to discriminate bacterial strains and impart selective antibacterial performance