Assessing the antimicrobial activity of polyisoprene based surfaces.

ABSTRACT: There has been an intense research effort in the last decades in the field of biofouling prevention as it concerns many aspects of everyday life and causes problems to devices, the environment, and human health. Many different antifouling and antimicrobial materials have been developed to struggle against bacteria and other micro- and macro-organism attachment to different surfaces. However the "miracle solution" has still to be found. The research presented here concerns the synthesis of bio-based polymeric materials and the biological tests that showed their antifouling and, at the same time, antibacterial activity. The raw material used for the coating synthesis was natural rubber. The polyisoprene chains were fragmented to obtain oligomers, which had reactive chemical groups at their c

SUBMITTER: Badawy H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4394427 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature