Table of Contents
PREFACE vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Jose´ M. Lagaron, Maria J. Ocio, and Amparo Lopez-Rubio
2 BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOCIDE PLASTICS 23 Nibras A.A.M. Ahmed
3 “CLICK CHEMISTRY” TO DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERS 51 P. Lecomte, R. Riva, and C. Jerome
4 CHITOSAN AND CHITOSAN BLENDS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 71 Patricia Fernandez-Saiz
5 THYMOL IN NANOCOMPOSITES. A CASE STUDY 101 Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia
6 BACTERIOCINS IN PLASTICS 117 Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani
7 ANTIMICROBIAL ENZYMES AND NATURAL EXTRACTS IN PLASTICS 159 Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia Conte, and Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile
8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 195 Jose F. Marcos and Paloma Manzanares
9 RECOMBINANT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 227 J. Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello, Carmen Garcia-Arevalo, Alessandra Girotti, Laura Martin, and Mercedes Santos
10 NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING METHODS 261 Sergio Torres-Giner
11 SILVER- AND NANOSILVER-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 287 Antonio Martinez-Abad
12 ANTIMICROBIAL PLASTICS BASED ON METAL-CONTAINING NANOLAYERED CLAYS 317 Jose´ M. Lagaron and Maria A. Busolo
13 NANOMETALS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 327 R.P. Allaker, M.A. Vargas-Reus, and G.G. Ren
14 TITANIUM DIOXIDE-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 351 Marta Fernandez-Garcia, Maria L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka, and Marcos Fernandez-Garcia
15 TISSUE-IMPLANT ANTIMICROBIAL INTERFACES 379 E. Marsich, A. Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo, and S. Paoletti
16 CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CELL MEMBRANES AND ANTIMICROBIALS VIA SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY 429 Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen
17 GAS-BASED ANTIMICROBIALS IN ACTIVE PACKAGING 459 Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim
18 CURRENT LEGISLATION IN ANTIMICROBIALS 489 Javier Gomez
19 HUMAN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF BIOCIDES 527 Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power, and Seamus Fanning
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