Anhydrous polymer‐based coating with sustainable controlled release functionality for facile, efficacious impregnation, and delivery of antimicrobial peptides

• Main Authors: Lim, Kaiyang, Saravanan, Rathi, Chong, Kelvin Kian Long, Goh, Sharon Hwee Mian, Chua, Ray R. Y., Tambyah, Paul A., Chang, Matthew W., Kline, Kimberly A., Leong, Susanna S. J.
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Medicine; Anhydrous Polymer Coating; Antimicrobial Peptides
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/136860
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Anhydrous polymers are actively explored as alternative materials to overcome limitations of conventional hydrogel-based antibacterial coating. However, the requirement for strong organic solvent in polymerization reactions often necessitates extra protection steps for encapsulation of target biomol...