Synergistically enhanced photothermal transition of a polyoxometalate/peptide assembly improved the antibiofilm and antibacterial activities.We successfully developed an antimicrobial assembly (Mo154/TK-14) using molybdenum-polyoxometalate and a positively charged peptide of TK-14.  The Mo154/TK-14 assembly showed an enhanced 808 nm absorption and, therefore, improved the photothermal conversion efficiency of Mo154 (30.3%) to 38.6%. 
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