Themed collection Editors’ collection: Antimicrobial Polymers

The recent progress of peptide-based injectable hydrogels for biomedical applications is extensively summarized.

Functional active wound dressings are expected to provide a moist wound environment, offer protection from secondary infections, remove wound exudate and accelerate tissue regeneration, as well as to improve the efficiency of wound healing.

Vertically oriented boron nitride flakes on a polymer surface exhibit bactericidal activity.

Pictorial diagram of multi-responsive hydrogels for controlled drug release system.

Polymer quaternary ammonium salt–capped silver nanoparticles (PQAS–AgNPs) were synthesized, and they exhibited significant antibacterial capacity against Bacillus subtilis.

The use of intrinsic chiral molecules opens the door to bio-imaging specific tools and to the development of target-therapy.

One of the goals of bone tissue engineering is to create scaffolds with well-defined, inter-connected pores, excellent biocompatibility and osteoinductive ability.

Depending on the degree of substitution DS, the antiadhesive (high DS) or antimicrobial (lower DS) character of the coating will be dominant.

This work describes the synthesis of novel antimicrobial agents consisting of N-halamine and dual quaternary ammonium with different alkyl chain lengths and their antimicrobial applications for PET nonwovens.

A series of surface attached silane or benzophenone sulfonamide quaternary ammonium antimicrobials show potent efficacy at solid/air and solid/liquid interfaces.

The paper presents the interaction mechanism of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) with different antibiotics and the antibacterial efficacy of the formed conjugates.

The aim of this work was to immobilize antimicrobial peptides onto a fibrous scaffold to create functional wound dressings.

Herein, antibacterial coordination polymer hydrogels were conveniently fabricated in water via coordination between silver nitrate and PEGylated bisimidazolylbenzyl alcohol (1a–c).

Polyethylene terephthalate foils were activated with piranha solution and grafted with selected amino compounds (cysteamine, ethylenediamine or chitosan) and then with borane compounds. Their antimicrobial and optical properties were then analyzed.

The antimicrobial activity of silver colloids depends on Ag⁺ kinetic release that is governed by the chemical nature of the polymer coating in polymer-stabilized assemblies.

The immobilized-protein in an appropriate alkyl chain length of DM displayed higher antibacterial activities, exhibited a more effective DET and a promising catalytic activity toward H₂O₂.

We describe the synthetic pathway to produce efficient bactericidal, fungicidal and non-cytotoxic chitosan–ascorbic acid–silver composites as solid films.

In the present research, we aimed to produce polymer nanofibrous filters for antibacterial purification of air and water and prove their efficiency and stability under simulated filtration conditions.

ABA-triblock copolymers were prepared via ATRP, using modified perfluoropolyether (PFPE) as a macroinitiator (Br–PFPE–Br) to form the B block, and 2-hydroxy-3-cardanylpropyl methacrylate (HCPM) as a monomer to form the A blocks.

Ag-based nano-graft can impart broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity to a polymer membrane and enhance its anti-fouling capacity effectively.

We report a facile, one-step, aqueous surface bioconjugation approach for producing an antifungal surface coating that prevents the formation of fungal biofilms.

A new contact-killing and non-leaching antimicrobial polymer was prepared by a robust, efficient and orthogonal click-chemistry.

Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) is a bio-based nanomaterial with no intrinsic antibacterial properties.

Cationic amphiphilic polyacrylate terpolymers with rapid bactericidal activity against E. coli and S. aureus.

Highly efficient antibacterial polymeric films were prepared in a facile manner via a thiol–ene reaction assisted by ultraviolet radiation.

A TPU elastomer was modified with N-halamine polymers as a novel food contact surface material with rechargeable antimicrobial activity.