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The pioneering guide on the design, processing, and testing of antimicrobial plastic materials and coatings
The manifestation of harmful microbes in plastic materials used in medical devices and drugs, water purification systems, hospital equipment, textiles, and food packaging pose alarming health threats to consumers by exposing them to many serious infectious diseases. As a result, high demand for intensifying efforts in the R&D of antimicrobial polymers has placed heavy reliance on both academia and industry to find viable solutions for producing safer plastic materials. To assist researchers and students in this endeavor, Antimicrobial Polymers explores coupling contaminant-deterring biocides and plastics—focusing particular attention on natural biocides and the nanofabrication of biocides. Each chapter is devoted to addressing a key technology employed to impart antimicrobial behavior to polymers, including chemical modification of the polymers themselves. A host of relevant topics, such as regulatory matters, human safety, and environmental risks are covered to help lend depth to the book's vital subject matter. In addition, Antimicrobial Polymers:
Achieving cleaner and more effective methods for improving the infection-fighting properties of versatile and necessary plastic materials is a goal that stretches across many scientific fields. Antimicrobial Polymers combines all of this information into one volume, exposing readers to preventive strategies that harbor vast potential for making exposure to polymeric products and surfaces a far less risky undertaking in the future.
1. Antimicrobial Packaging Polymers. A General Introduction (José María Lagarón, María José Ocio Zapata, Amparo López-Rubio).
2. Bacterial Resistance and Challenges of Biocide Plastics (Dr. Nibras AAM Ahmed).
3. “Click Chemistry” to Derived Antimicrobial Polymers (P. Lecomte, R. Riva, C.Jérôme).
4. Chitosan and Chitosan Blends as Antimicrobials (P. Fernandez-Saiz).
5. Thymol in Nanocomposites. A Case Study (Dr. Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia).
6. Bacteriocins in Plastics (Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani).
7. Antimicrobial Enzymes and Natural Extracts in Plastics (Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia Conte, Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile).
8. Antimicrobial Peptides (Jose F. Marcos, Paloma Manzanares).
9. Recombinant Antimicrobial Peptides (J. Carlos, Rodriquez-Cabello, Carmen García-Arévalo, Alessandra Girotti, Laura Martin, Mercedes Santos).
10. Novel Antimicrobials Obtained by Electrospinning Methods (Sergio Torres-Giner).
11. Silver and Nanosilver Based Plastic Technologies (Antonio Martínez-Abad).
12. Antimicrobial Plastics Based on Metal-Containing Nanolayered Clays (Jose M. Lagaron, María A. Busolo).
13. Nanometals as Antimicrobials (R. P. Allaker, M. A. Vargas-Reus, G. G. Ren).
14. Titanium Dioxide-Based Plastic Technologies (Marta Fernández-García, María L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka and Marcos Fernández-García).
15. Tissue-Implant Antimicrobial Interfaces (E. Marsich, A Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo and Prof. S. Paoletti).
16. Characterizing the Interactions between Cell Membranes and Antimicrobials via Sum-Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy (Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen).
17. Gas-Based Antimicrobials in Active Packaging (Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim).
18. Current Legislation in Antimicrobials (Javier Gómez).
19. Human Safety and Environmental Concerns Associated with the Use of Biocides (Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power and Séamus Fanning).
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The pioneering guide on the design, processing, and testing of antimicrobial plastic materials and coatings
The manifestation of harmful microbes in plastic materials used in medical devices and drugs, water purification systems, hospital equipment, textiles, and food packaging pose alarming health threats to consumers by exposing them to many serious infectious diseases. As a result, high demand for intensifying efforts in the R&D of antimicrobial polymers has placed heavy ...