Overview
- Offers a complete and brief overview of different strategies for preparation of antimicrobial materials
- Places contamination problems in the context of what polymers can offer for remediation using different alternatives to remove and prevent bacterial infections
- Describes how polymers with antimicrobial activity can interact in various ways
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book provides an introductory and general overview of advances in polymers towards their employment as antimicrobial materials. The author describes current approaches for avoiding microbial contamination, toward macro-molecular antibiotics, and prevention of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by use of polymers. He establishes the remaining issues and analyzes existing methodologies for treating bacterial infections and for preparing antimicrobial materials.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Juan Rodriguez-Hernandez is a tenured researcher at the Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC). From 2005, his research activity has been centered around the preparation of surfaces in which both the functionality and the nano-structuration can be controlled. His research group works on the rational of controlled functionalization and hierarchically structuration of polymer surfaces with different properties having interest in catalysis, friction or as antimicrobial interfaces.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polymers against Microorganisms
Book Subtitle: On the Race to Efficient Antimicrobial Materials
Authors: Juan Rodríguez-Hernández
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47961-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47960-6Published: 16 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83867-0Published: 11 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47961-3Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 278
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biomaterials, Polymer Sciences, Medical Microbiology