PREPARATION OF ANTIMICROBIAL SURFACES ON POLYMERIC PLATFORMS

MARÍA FERNANDA STRAGLIOTTO; GIULIANA MOSCONI; LAURA VALENTI; MARCELO R. ROMERO ; CARLA GIACOMELLI ; MIRIAM STRUMIA ; CESAR G. GOMEZ

Mar del Plata

Simposio; XVI Latin-American Polymer Symposium (SLAP 2018), XIV Iberoamerican Polymer Congress (CIP 2018); 2018

INTEMA

Numerous antimicrobial agents, which are able toeffectively inhibit the growth of microorganisms, havebeen developed1. Among them, biocidal polymers suchas N-halamine antimicrobial polymers have beenextensively studied over the past decade. These Nhalamineshave long-term stability in aqueous solutionand for their dry storage. N-halamines are particularlyeffective, safe to humans, and environmentallyfriendly1,2. The objective of this work was to modifysuperficially polypropylene (PP) films with N-halamidegroups of adsorbed barbituric acid, to later evaluatetheir antimicrobial activity (AMA) againstStaphylococcus aureus.