Biocidal Polymers

✍ Scribed by Narendra Pal Singh Chauhan (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Edition: 2nd revised edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Biocidal polymers are designed to inhibit or kill microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi and protozoans. This book summarizes recent findings in the synthesis, modification and characterization of various antimicrobial polymers ranging from plastics and elastomers to biomimetic and biodegradable polymers. Modifications with different antimicrobial agents as well as antimicrobial testing methods are described in a comprehensive manner.

- Synthesis, modification and physicochemical characterization of antimicrobial polymers

- Biocidal, biodegradable, biomimetic and conducting polymers

- Antimicrobial screening and testing

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
List of contributing authors
About the Editor
1. Cationic antimicrobial polymers
2. Antibacterial activity of amphiphilic polymers
3. Design of biomimetic antimicrobial polymers
4. Polymer–metal nanocomposites with antimicrobial activity
5. Biocidal activity of biodegradable polymers
6. Polylactic acid and polyethylene glycol as antimicrobial agents
7. Conducting polymers with antimicrobial activity
8. Antimicrobial activities of plastics and elastomers
9. Functionalised antimicrobial polymers
10. Antimicrobial activities of N-halaminebased polymers
11. Antimicrobial testing methods
12. Antimicrobial peptides
13. Biocidal polymers: Future perspective
Abbreviations
Index