Lagaron / Ocio / Lopez-Rubio Antimicrobial Polymers

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-15087-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 608 Seiten, E-Book

The pioneering guide on the design, processing, and testingof antimicrobial plastic materials and coatings
The manifestation of harmful microbes in plastic materials usedin medical devices and drugs, water purification systems, hospitalequipment, textiles, and food packaging pose alarming healththreats to consumers by exposing them to many serious infectiousdiseases. As a result, high demand for intensifying efforts in theR&D of antimicrobial polymers has placed heavy reliance on bothacademia and industry to find viable solutions for producing saferplastic materials. To assist researchers and students in thisendeavor, Antimicrobial Polymers explores couplingcontaminant-deterring biocides and plastics--focusingparticular attention on natural biocides and the nanofabrication ofbiocides. Each chapter is devoted to addressing a key technologyemployed to impart antimicrobial behavior to polymers, includingchemical modification of the polymers themselves. A host ofrelevant topics, such as regulatory matters, human safety, andenvironmental risks are covered to help lend depth to the book'svital subject matter. In addition, AntimicrobialPolymers:
* Discusses the design, processing, and testing of antimicrobialplastic materials
* Covers interdisciplinary areas of chemistry and microbiology
* Includes applications in food packaging, medical devices,nanotechnology, and coatings
* Details regulations from the U.S. (FDA and EPA) and EU as wellas human safety and environmental concerns
Achieving cleaner and more effective methods for improving theinfection-fighting properties of versatile and necessary plasticmaterials is a goal that stretches across many scientific fields.Antimicrobial Polymers combines all of this information intoone volume, exposing readers to preventive strategies that harborvast potential for making exposure to polymeric products andsurfaces a far less risky undertaking in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lagaron, Jose Maria

Ocio, Maria Jose

Lopez-Rubio, Amparo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION1
Jose´ M. Lagaron, Maria J. Ocio, and AmparoLopez-Rubio
2 BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOCIDE PLASTICS23
Nibras A.A.M. Ahmed
3 "CLICK CHEMISTRY" TO DERIVED ANTIMICROBIALPOLYMERS 51
P. Lecomte, R. Riva, and C. Jerome
4 CHITOSAN AND CHITOSAN BLENDS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 71
Patricia Fernandez-Saiz
5 THYMOL IN NANOCOMPOSITES. A CASE STUDY 101
Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia
6 BACTERIOCINS IN PLASTICS 117
Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani
7 ANTIMICROBIAL ENZYMES AND NATURAL EXTRACTS IN PLASTICS159
Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia Conte, andMatteo Alessandro Del Nobile
8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 195
Jose F. Marcos and Paloma Manzanares
9 RECOMBINANT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 227
J. Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello, Carmen Garcia-Arevalo, AlessandraGirotti, Laura Martin, and Mercedes Santos
10 NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING METHODS261
Sergio Torres-Giner
11 SILVER- AND NANOSILVER-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 287
Antonio Martinez-Abad
12 ANTIMICROBIAL PLASTICS BASED ON METAL-CONTAINING NANOLAYEREDCLAYS 317
Jose´ M. Lagaron and Maria A. Busolo
13 NANOMETALS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 327
R.P. Allaker, M.A. Vargas-Reus, and G.G. Ren
14 TITANIUM DIOXIDE-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 351
Marta Fernandez-Garcia, Maria L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka, andMarcos Fernandez-Garcia
15 TISSUE-IMPLANT ANTIMICROBIAL INTERFACES 379
E. Marsich, A. Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo, and S.Paoletti
16 CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CELL MEMBRANES ANDANTIMICROBIALS VIA SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONALSPECTROSCOPY 429
Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen
17 GAS-BASED ANTIMICROBIALS IN ACTIVE PACKAGING 459
Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim
18 CURRENT LEGISLATION IN ANTIMICROBIALS 489
Javier Gomez
19 HUMAN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THEUSE OF BIOCIDES 527
Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power, and SeamusFanning
INDEX 561

Über Autor(innen)

JOSé M. LAGARóN, PhD, is Founder and Group-Leaderof the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Group of the Institute ofAgrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) of the Spanish Council forScientific Research (CSIC) in Valencia, Spain. and is part-timeProfessor of Materials Science at the Universitat Jaume I. Dr.Lagaron has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers, abook and several book chapters, and has fourteen patentapplications in nanotechnology applied to polymers.
MARÍA J. OCIO, PhD, is a Food Technologist TenureTrack Lecturer at the Preventive Medicine Department of theUniversity of Valencia and also project leader within the NovelMaterials and Nanotechnology Lab at the Institute of Agrochemistryand Food Technology of CSIC. She has a wide knowledge andexperience in the handling of microorganisms of interest in thefood industry. Dr. Ocio has over forty publications inpeer-reviewed international journals.
AMPARO LóPEZ-RUBIO, PhD, is a research scientist andproject leader within the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Groupof the IATA-CSIC. She has published over thirty-five papers inpeer-reviewed international journals on the subjects of foodtechnology, nanotechnology, packaging and biopackaging.