Tabella dei contenuti
PREFACE vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1
Jose´ M. Lagaron, Maria J. Ocio, and Amparo
Lopez-Rubio
2 BACTER...
Tabella dei contenuti
PREFACE vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1
Jose´ M. Lagaron, Maria J. Ocio, and Amparo
Lopez-Rubio
2 BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOCIDE PLASTICS
23
Nibras A.A.M. Ahmed
3 ‘CLICK CHEMISTRY’ TO DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL
POLYMERS 51
P. Lecomte, R. Riva, and C. Jerome
4 CHITOSAN AND CHITOSAN BLENDS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 71
Patricia Fernandez-Saiz
5 THYMOL IN NANOCOMPOSITES. A CASE STUDY 101
Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia
6 BACTERIOCINS IN PLASTICS 117
Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani
7 ANTIMICROBIAL ENZYMES AND NATURAL EXTRACTS IN PLASTICS
159
Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia Conte, and
Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile
8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 195
Jose F. Marcos and Paloma Manzanares
9 RECOMBINANT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 227
J. Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello, Carmen Garcia-Arevalo, Alessandra
Girotti, Laura Martin, and Mercedes Santos
10 NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING METHODS
261
Sergio Torres-Giner
11 SILVER- AND NANOSILVER-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 287
Antonio Martinez-Abad
12 ANTIMICROBIAL PLASTICS BASED ON METAL-CONTAINING NANOLAYERED
CLAYS 317
Jose´ M. Lagaron and Maria A. Busolo
13 NANOMETALS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 327
R.P. Allaker, M.A. Vargas-Reus, and G.G. Ren
14 TITANIUM DIOXIDE-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 351
Marta Fernandez-Garcia, Maria L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka, and
Marcos Fernandez-Garcia
15 TISSUE-IMPLANT ANTIMICROBIAL INTERFACES 379
E. Marsich, A. Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo, and S.
Paoletti
16 CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CELL MEMBRANES AND
ANTIMICROBIALS VIA SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONAL
SPECTROSCOPY 429
Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen
17 GAS-BASED ANTIMICROBIALS IN ACTIVE PACKAGING 459
Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim
18 CURRENT LEGISLATION IN ANTIMICROBIALS 489
Javier Gomez
19 HUMAN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
USE OF BIOCIDES 527
Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power, and Seamus
Fanning
INDEX 561