Abstract
MXenes have gained significant importance in many applications in the fields of energy, environment and healthcare. The versatile features of MXenes enable them as a wonder material for their wide category of ap-plications. Tunable surface chemistry and nano-dimensional layered features of MXenes are accounted for their improved multifunctional properties among the other two-dimensional materials. Of various applications, MXenes show the relevant properties toward antimicrobial disinfection of bacteria, fungi and viruses including the SARS responsible for COVID-19. Therefore, the development, characterizations and mechanism of MXenes-based materials are important to bring these advanced materials for their real-time antimicrobial applications. In this context, this review presents a glimpse of MXenes in terms of their synthesis processes, characterizations, antimicrobial properties, and elucidate their mechanism of actions toward antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities. Finally, it concludes with a future perspective of MXenes towards their biomedical applications.