Mixed-charge pseudo-zwitterionic copolymer brush as broad spectrum antibiofilm coating

• Main Authors: Wu, Yang, Raju, Cheerlavancha, Hou, Zheng, Si, Zhangyong, Xu, Chen, Pranantyo, Dicky, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, De, Partha Pratim, Ng, Oon Tek, Pethe, Kevin, Kang, En-Tang, Chan-Park, Mary B.
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Chemical engineering::Polymers and polymer manufacture; Pseudo-Zwitterionic Copolymer; Mixed-Charge
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154044
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Zwitterionic polymers are classical antifouling polymers but they require specialized monomers that have cationic and anionic charges integrated into a single monomer. Herein, we show that pseudo-zwitterionic copolymers synthesized from a mixture of 2 monomers each having a single opposite polarity...