Highly Bactericidal Macroporous Antimicrobial Polymeric Gel for Point-of-Use Water Disinfection.

ABSTRACT: Access to clean and safe water supply remains inadequate in many developing countries. One of the key challenges is to remove pathogenic bacteria from the water supply via effective water disinfection technologies to prevent the spread of diseases and to ensure the safety of consumers. Herein, a highly effective point-of-use (on-demand) water disinfection technology, in the form of a polymeric scaffold called macroporous antimicrobial polymeric gel (MAPG), is demonstrated. MAPG is easy to fabricate, completely organic and possess inherent antimicrobial property which makes it non-reliant on inorganic compounds such as silver where the long-term toxicity remains unknown. MAPG is highly bactericidal and can disinfect bacteria-contaminated water (ca. 10⁸ CFU mL^-1) at a c

SUBMITTER: Kumar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5962547 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature