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- Title
Antiviral and Antibacterial Polyurethanes of Various Modalities.
- Authors
Park, Daewon; Larson, Alyssa; Klibanov, Alexander; Wang, Yadong
- Abstract
We have prepared and characterized a new polyurethane-based antimicrobial material, N, N-dodecyl,methyl-polyurethane (Quat-12-PU). It exhibits strong antiviral and antibacterial activities when coated (as an organic solution or an aqueous nanosuspension) onto surfaces and antibacterial activity when electrospun into nanofibers. Quat-12-PU surfaces are able to kill airborne Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus and Gram-negative Escherichia coli bacteria, as well as inactivate the enveloped influenza virus (but not the non-enveloped poliovirus).
- Subjects
ANTIVIRAL agents; ANTIBACTERIAL agents; POLYURETHANES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOFIBERS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS aureus; ESCHERICHIA coli
- Publication
Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology, 2013, Vol 169, Issue 4, p1134
- ISSN
0273-2289
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s12010-012-9999-7