Contact-killing non-leaching antimicrobial materials
AssigneesBioPolymerix, Inc., Surfacine Development Company, LLC
InventorsSamuel P. Sawan, Tadmor Shalon, Sundar Subramanyam, Alexander Yurkovetskiy
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Abstract
An antimicrobial material is described which can be used to form on the surface on a substrate a non-leaching antimicrobial coating or layer which kills microorganisms on contact. The non-leaching antimicrobial coating or layer is a unique combination of an organic matrix immobilized on the surface of the substrate to having biocidal metallic materials non-leachably associated with the matrix. When a microorganism contacts the coating or layer, the biocidal metallic material is transferred to the microorganism in amounts sufficient to kill it.
Claims9
A contact-killing, non-leaching antimicrobial material, capable of killing microorganisms which come into contact with the material, said material comprising an organic polycationic polymer matrix having non-leachably bound or complexed thereto an antimicrobial metallic material, such that the antimicrobial material does not release biocidal amounts of elutables into the surrounding environment.
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