Designed polymer structures with antifouling-antimicrobial properties

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Title: Designed polymer structures with antifouling-antimicrobial properties
Author(s): Charnley, Mirren; Textor, Marcus; Acikgoz, Canet
Abstract: Designing surfaces with antifouling and antimicrobial properties has an important route to solve problems, such as infections and fouling, in healthcare and industrial applications. Recently, there has been considerable interest in developing surfaces with polymers because of their distinct properties, such as their length scale, their processability, low cost, tunable properties, and diverse functionalities. This article reviews the polymer systems developed as antifouling-antimicrobial surface coatings, termed as biopassive and bioactive polymers respectively. Many different types of bioactive and biopassive polymeric systems and their limitations are presented.
Publication type: Journal article
Source: Reactive and Functional Polymers, Vol. 71, no. 3 (Mar 2011), pp. 329-334
Publication year: 2011
FOR Code(s): 0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry; 0912 Materials Engineering
Keyword(s): Antifouling surfaces; Antimicrobial surfaces; Functional polymers
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 1381-5148
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2010.10.013
Peer reviewed