Functional Polymers as Innovative Tools in the Delivery of Antimicrobial Agents

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: accumulative release; agro-food-wastes; aliphatic dicarboxylic acids; anti-biofilm; antibiotics; antimicrobial activity of nanoparticles; antimicrobial agent; antimicrobial agents; antimicrobial amphiphiles; antimicrobial peptide; bioactivity; biocompatible polymer; biomedicine; bromelain; Candida albicans; carrier; cell viability from counting of colony-forming unities; chitosan; colistin; drug delivery; dynamic light scattering; equilibrium swelling ratio; Escherichia coli; essential oil; film nanocomposite; gram-negative bacteria; hybrid nanoparticles; hydrogel; linezolid; long-term package; MDR-Bacteria; mixed polymeric micelles; multidrug resistance; n/a; nanoliposomes; nanotechnologies; nisin; plant extracts; Pluronic F127; polymer therapeutics; polymeric nanocarriers; polymeric nanomaterial; polymyxin B; polyvinyl alcohol; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; scanning electron microscopy; self-assembly; silver nanoparticle; Staphylococcus aureus; supercritical CO2; sustained release; thermogravimetric analysis; wound healing

This Special Issue explored different topics concerning recent progress in the synthesis and characterization of suitable innovative macromolecular systems, proposed as carriers of specific antimicrobial molecules, to be employed in the biomedical and pharmaceutical fields. Many infectious diseases...