Antimicrobial s-PBC Coatings for Innovative Multifunctional Water Filters.

ABSTRACT: Biological contamination is a typical issue in water treatment. Highly concentrated microbial suspensions in a water flow may cause filter occlusion and biofilm formation, affecting the lifespan and quality of water purification systems and increasing the risk of nosocomial infections. In order to contrast the biofilm formation, most of the conventional strategies rely on the water chemical modification and/or on the use of filters functional coatings. The former is unsafe for huge chemicals spilling required; therefore, we focus on the second approach and we propose the use of a sulfonated pentablock copolymer (s-PBC, commercially named Nexar™) as innovative multifunctional coating for improving the performance of commercial water filters. S-PBC-coated polypropylene (PP) samples were test

SUBMITTER: Sciuto EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7664665 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature