The mechanisms and the applications of antibacterial polymers in surface modification on medical devices

• Main Authors: Qiu, Haofeng, Si, Zhangyong, Luo, Yang, Feng, Peipei, Wu, Xujin, Hou, Wenjia, Zhu, Yabin, Chan-Park, Mary B., Xu, Long, Huang, Dongmei
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Bioengineering; Antibacterial Polymer; Mechanism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145508
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Medical device contamination caused by microbial pathogens such as bacteria and fungi has posed a severe threat to the patients’ health in hospitals. Due to the increasing resistance of pathogens to antibiotics, the efficacy of traditional antibiotics treatment is gradually decreasing for the infect...