A SIMULTANEOUSLY ANTIMICROBIAL AND PROTEIN-REPELLENT POLYZWITTERION

• Main Authors: GUEVARA-SOLARTE, Diana, Lorena, RIGA, Esther, KUROWSKA, Monika, HETTLER, Alice, LIENKAMP, Karen, AL-AHMAD, Ali
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 17.07.2019
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES; CHEMICAL PAINT OR INK REMOVERS; CHEMISTRY; COATING COMPOSITIONS, e.g. PAINTS, VARNISHES ORLACQUERS; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; CORRECTING FLUIDS; DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR; DYES; FILLING PASTES; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; HYGIENE; INKS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NATURAL RESINS; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PAINTS; PASTES OR SOLIDS FOR COLOURING OR PRINTING; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; POLISHES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRAPPING; USE OF MATERIALS THEREFOR; WOODSTAINS

The present invention concerns a simultaneously antimicrobial and antifouling and protein repellent polyzwitterion (monolayers, polymer networks and surface-attached polymer networks formed thereby), and substrates coated with the inventive simultaneously antimicrobial and antifouling and protein repellent polyzwitterion. The invention also concerns uses of the inventive polymers and substrates for preventing and combating microbial growth.