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US 11,589,590 B2Granted
Antimicrobial coatings and methods of making and using thereof
AssigneeGeorgia Tech Research Corporation
InventorsM. G. Finn, Jennifer Marie Beveridge, Allison Geoghan Aioub, Zhishuai Geng
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Abstract
Disclosed are antimicrobial articles and surfaces, as well as methods of making such articles and surfaces.
Claims32
A process for rendering a polyvinyl chloride surface antimicrobial, the process comprising:
- (a) contacting the polyvinyl chloride surface with a cyanation reagent in the presence of a phase transfer catalyst to form a cyano-substituted polyvinyl chloride surface;
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- (b) covalently bonding an antimicrobial agent to the cyano-substituted polyvinyl chloride surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.