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Antimicrobial Polymers: from Structure Design to Specific Properties and Applications

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dc.contributor.author ZANOAGA, Madalina
dc.contributor.author TANASA, Fulga
dc.date.accessioned 2019-10-26T15:01:48Z
dc.date.available 2019-10-26T15:01:48Z
dc.date.issued 2011
dc.identifier.citation ZANOAGA, Madalina, TANASA, Fulga. Antimicrobial Polymers: from Structure Design to Specific Properties and Applications. In: ICNBME-2011. International conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering. German-moldovan workshop on Novel Nanomaterials for Electronic, Photonic and Biomedical Applications: proc. of the intern. conf., July 7-8, 2011. Chişinău, 2011, p. 328. ISBN 978-9975-66-239-0. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 978-9975-66-239-0
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.utm.md/handle/5014/5408
dc.description Abstract en_US
dc.description.abstract Microbial infection remains one of the most serious complications in several areas, particularly in medical devices, drugs, health care and hygienic applications, water purification systems, hospital and dental surgery equipment, textiles, food packaging, and food storage [1,2]. Antimicrobials gain interest due to their potential to provide quality and safety benefits to many materials. However, low molecular weight antimicrobial agents suffer from many disadvantages, such as toxicity to the environment and short-term antimicrobial ability. To overcome these problems associated with the low molecular weight antimicrobial agents, antimicrobial functional groups can be introduced into polymeric macromolecules. The use of antimicrobial polymers offers promise for enhancing the efficacy of some existing antimicrobial agents and minimizing the environmental problems accompanying conventional antimicrobial agents by reducing the residual toxicity of the agents, increasing their efficiency and selectivity and prolonging the lifetime. Research concerning the development of antimicrobial polymers represents a great a challenge for both the academic world and industry. This article reviews some data concerning antimicrobial polymers, from the structure design to specific properties and applications, as well as future and perspectives in the field of antimicrobial polymers. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Technical University of Moldova en_US
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States *
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ *
dc.subject antimicrobial agents en_US
dc.subject polymers synthesis en_US
dc.title Antimicrobial Polymers: from Structure Design to Specific Properties and Applications en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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