Metal-containing materials
AssigneeNucryst Pharmaceuticals Corp.
InventorsScott H. Gillis, Paul Schechter, James Alexander Robert Stiles
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Abstract
Metal-containing materials, as well as their preparation and use are disclosed. The metal-containing material can be, for example, an antimicrobial material, an anti-biofilm material, an antibacterial material, an anti-inflammatory material, an anti-fungal material, an anti-viral material, an anti-cancer material, a pro-apoptosis material, anti-proliferative, MMP modulating material, an atomically disordered, crystalline material, and/or a nanocrystalline material. In certain embodiments, the metal-containing material is an atomically disordered, nanocrystalline silver-containing material.
Claims6
An article in suppository form, comprising:
- an atomically disordered, nanocrystalline material comprising a metal and an element, wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, platinum, palladium and combinations thereof, and the element is selected from the group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, boron, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, a halogen, hydrogen and combinations thereof,
- wherein the atomically disordered, nanocrystalline material contains at least about one atomicpercent of the element and the article contains a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.