A new, simple approach to confer permanent antimicrobial properties to hydroxylated surfaces by surface functionalization
- 3 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 8,p. 951-953
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b716026g
Abstract
A new, simple method to obtain ultrathin polycationic monolayers on hydroxylated surfaces is described which uses a bifunctional copolymer comprising a reactive part (trimethoxysilane) and positive charges (quaternary ammonium salts) to confer antimicrobial properties.Keywords
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