A Review on Resins and Additives with Inherent Antimicrobial Properties Used in Coatings

Authors

1 Department of Polymer Engineering and Color Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology

2 Department of Resins and Additives, Institute for Color Science and Technology

Abstract

Eliminating and preventing the spread of microbes from the past has been considered. Antimicrobial coatings are one of the ways to fight pathogens. Acrylic and methacrylic resins, cationic conjugated polyelectrolytes, siloxane resins, hyperbranched resin, tetrachloride resins, resins with quaternary ammonium end group, heterogeneous resins with nitrogen, guanidine-containing resins, natural mimic peptides resins, synthetic peptides, resins with main chain of arylamide and phenylethylene, halogenated resins containing phosphorus and sulfur derivatives, phenol and benzoic acid derivatives resins, and organometallics compounds are the materials studied. Also, to create antimicrobial activity in them, other operations such as covalent integration of low molecular weight antimicrobial compounds, antimicrobial peptide binding, grafting other antimicrobial resins, addition of low molecular weight antimicrobial compounds, alloying with antimicrobial resins, and addition of antimicrobial inorganic compounds to resins by different researchers has taken place. In this article, examples of these studies are briefly presented.

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