Owing to its high biodegradability, and nontoxicity and antimicrobial properties, chitosan is
widely-used as an antimicrobial agent either alone or blended with other natural polymers …

Better health is basic requirement of human being, but the rapid growth of harmful
pathogens and their serious health effects pose a significant challenge to modern science …

Cationic compounds are promising candidates for development of antimicrobial agents.
Positive charges attached to surfaces, particles, polymers, peptides or bilayers have been …

Antibiotics were once the golden bullet to constrain infectious bacteria. However, the rapid
and continuing emergence of antibiotic resistance (AR) among infectious microbial …

Cartilage tissue engineering involves the invention of novel implantable cartilage
replacement materials to help heal cartilage injuries that do not heal themselves, aiming to …

Antimicrobial coatings can reduce the occurrence of medical device-related bacterial
infections. Poly (2-(dimethylamino ethyl) methacrylate)(pDMAEMA) is one such polymer that …

In this review, the general principles of antimicrobial surfaces will be discussed in detail.
Because many common products that keep microbes off surfaces have been banned in the …

Fast responsive macroporous interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) hydrogels were
fabricated in this work by a sequential strategy, as follows: the first network, consisting of …

Polylactide (PLA) is among the most common biodegradable polymers, with applications in
various fields, such as renewable and biomedical industries. PLA features poly (D-lactic …

Healthy body is one of the principle requirements of human beings, but the highly rated
growth of harmful pathogens has challenged researchers for investigation of antimicrobial …