{"id":18248,"date":"2014-08-27T07:48:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/research\/ionic-liquid-salts-can-bypass-skin-and-treat-skin-infections-better\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T06:06:36","slug":"ionic-liquid-salts-can-bypass-skin-and-treat-skin-infections-better","status":"publish","type":"research","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/ionic-liquid-salts-can-bypass-skin-and-treat-skin-infections-better","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ionic&#8217; liquid salts can bypass skin and treat skin infections better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Samir Mitragotri, a chemical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his team demonstrated the use of ionic liquid salts in liquid form in treating skin infections. by killing bacteria and aiding antibiotics in penetrating the skin\u2019s outer layer. Ionic liquids are salts\u2014neutrally charged compounds of a positively charged and a negatively charged component\u2014in liquid form that can penetrate outer layers of skin. The researchers tested a variety of ionic liquids for their ability to penetrate the skin and bacterial biofilms and found the ionic liquid formulations almost completely cured infections caused by <em>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Salmonella enterica. <\/em>These ionic salts have minimal toxicity and have various applications in medicine.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Read more in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/liquid-salts-by-pass-skin-to-treat-infections-1.15763\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[],"series":[],"subject":[5744,5742,5743],"class_list":["post-18248","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-and-pharmaceutics","subject-pharmacology","subject-toxicology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Ionic&#039; liquid salts can bypass skin and treat skin infections better | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A team of researchers demonstrated the use of ionic liquid salts in liquid form in treating skin infections\u00a0by killing bacteria and aiding antibiotics in penetrating the skin\u2019s outer layer. 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