Stable lotus leaf-inspired hierarchical, fluorinated polypropylene surfaces for reduced bacterial adhesion

Plasma Texturing of Polymers

“…19). Such results are contrary to those obtained with hierarchical CF4 plasma-treated PP which exhibits a 99.6% reduction of E. coli adhesion compared to untreated PP [64]. Such a different behavior could be interpreted as different bacterial behavior or a different surface pattern.…”

“…In addition, superhydrophilic surfaces in contact with water spontaneously form a water monolayer that acts as a weaker boundary layer for the biomolecules adhesion as observed with POE films. But same PP plasma-oxidized and textured in a same manner as the previous one [64] and thus completely wetted with water is more adhesive for bacteria. The additional nanostructuring reduces the surface anti-biofouling properties.…”

“…electronics [45,57], sensors [3,[58][59][60], medical devices [2,41,[61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] and metal -polymer assemblies [24,42,44,[69][70][71][72][73][74].…”

Molecular Dynamics of Amphiphilic Random Copolymers in the Bulk: A 1H and 19F NMR Relaxometry Study

“…Polymers consisting of chemically incompatible molecular components can spontaneously assemble into a variety of ordered morphologies in bulk, thin film and solution. An interesting variant of self‐assembling (co)polymers is obtained when highly hydrophobic/lipophobic fluoroalkyl chains are incorporated into the chemical structure of the repeating units, which makes them suitable candidates for high demanding applications . Block copolymers are the structural platform of choice to prepare self‐assembling polymeric materials, due to the favorable balance between the entropically and enthalpically driven phase separation and the chemical bond constraints, that results in the formation of domains over ordered arrays.…”

Preparation of 3‐pentadecylphenol‐modified cellulose nanocrystal and its application as a filler to polypropylene nanocomposites having improved antibacterial and mechanical properties

“…[80][81][82] A lot of approaches have been performed to develop PP based polymeric materials having the antibacterial property. For example, inorganic particles including copper, 83 silver, [84][85][86] titanium oxide, 87 and zinc oxide 88 have been used as the antibacterial fillers although the deterioration of mechanical properties 84 and the elution of toxic particles 89 are known as the disadvantages. Since the antibacterial activity of CNC 90,91 and PDP [39][40][41] had been reported before, the antibacterial property of PP/CNC and/or PP/f-CNC was expected.…”