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An Antimicrobial Fabric Using Nano-Herbal Encapsulation of Essential Oils
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Light-activated covalent coating of cotton with bactericidal hydrophobic polycations
Bryan B Hsu1, Alexander M Klibanov
1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Biomacromolecules
|December 7, 2010
Abstract:
A methodology is developed and validated whereby a cotton fabric is impregnated with a photosensitive hydrophobic N-alkyl-polyethylenimine, followed by its covalent immobilization triggered by ultraviolet light. The resultant fabric efficiently kills on contact waterborne pathogenic bacteria E. coli and S. aureus.

