Recent progress in bio-inspired biofilm-resistant polymeric surfaces

Abstract Any surface of human interest can serve as a substrate for biofilm growth, sometimes with detrimental effects. The social and economic consequences of biofilm-mediated damage to surfaces are significant, the financial impact being estimated to be billions of dollars every year. After describing traditional biocide-based approaches for the remediation of biofilm-affected surfaces, this review deals with more recent developments in material science, focusing on non-toxic, eco-sustainable nature-inspired biomaterials with anti-biofilm properties superior to the conventional biocide-based approaches in terms of addressing the biofilm problem.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Critical reviews in microbiology

• Publication date

  2018-07-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/1040841X.2018.1489369PMID 30016175
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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