We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Antimicrobial polymers, handpicked by Associate Editor Roberto Rosal.
The collection features the most remarkable contributions on antimicrobial polymers published in the journal and aims to highlight recent work published on the design, characterization, and efficiency of antimicrobial polymers.
Antimicrobial polymers are materials aimed at inhibiting or killing different types of microorganisms. The importance of developing new antimicrobial substances and materials arises from the health problem posed by multidrug-resistant microbes. This set of articles describes some recent developments on the use of different types of antimicrobial polymers. They include antimicrobial nanomaterials, antimicrobial fibres and surfaces and drug-delivery systems with a focus on potentially pathogenic bacterial strains.
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Featured articles:
Antibacterial effect of boron nitride flakes with controlled orientation in polymer composites
Santosh Pandit, Karolina Gaska, V. R. S. S. Mokkapati, Sven Forsberg, Magnus Svensson, Roland Kádár and Ivan Mijakovic
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 33454-33459. DOI: 10.1039/C9RA06773F
Enhancement in sustained release of antimicrobial peptide and BMP-2 from degradable three dimensional-printed PLGA scaffold for bone regeneration
Lei Chen, Liping Shao, Fengping Wang, Yifan Huang and Fenghui Gao
RSC Adv., 2019, 9, 10494-10507. DOI: 10.1039/C8RA08788A
A functional chitosan-based hydrogel as a wound dressing and drug delivery system in the treatment of wound healing
He Liu, Chenyu Wang, Chen Li, Yanguo Qin, Zhonghan Wang, Fan Yang, Zuhao Li and Jincheng Wang
RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 7533-7549. DOI: 10.1039/C7RA13510F
Meet the Editor
Associate Editor Roberto Rosal is a Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of Alcalá and an associated researcher at the Advanced Study Institute of Madrid (IMDEA Agua). His research over the last few years has concentrated on topics relating to Environmental Chemistry and Materials Science. The main focuses are the fate toxicity and removal of aqueous (micro)pollutants from water and wastewater, including their mixtures and engineered nanomaterials, the generation and biological effects of incidental micro- and nanoplastics, and the production of nanostructured surfaces and their interaction with cells for environmental and biomedical applications.
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