Amphiphilic Polymers with Potent Antibacterial Activity

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

Polymers and materials play key roles in national security through detection and decontamination addressing chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives threats. Proposed detection and decontamination methods utilize polymers and other materials to combat terrorist threats. Because today's detectors are not sufficiently sensitive and selective and decontamination agents are not selective enough for all threats and every scenario, research is being conducted to bridge the scientific and technical gaps. Collected in this volume are papers that elucidate specific efforts in developing new polymers and new materials that can be used as platforms in detectors, as the matrix to incorporate specific detection sites, as recognition elements for detection, as detectors themselves, as decontamination agents and as key components in detection systems. The chapters are divided into the categories of chemical detection, biological detection, and decontamination. Although these groupings are primarily based on the applications, much of the design of the polymers and materials can be broadened into other pertinent detection and decontamination scenarios.