Biocide squirting from an elastomeric tri-layer film

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 311-315

  Sonntag, Philippe ^a   Hoerner, Pierre ^a   Cheymol, André ^a   Argy, Gilles ^a   Riess, Gérard ^b,c   Reiter, Günter ^c  

^a Hutchinson Research Center ^*  (France)

^b Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Mulhouse   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE HAUTE ALSACE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCIDES; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DEFORMATION; GELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY;

ELASTIC MATRIX; ELASTOMERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; SURGICAL GLOVES; TRI-LAYER FILMS;

ELASTOMERS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ELASTOMER;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METHODOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; VALIDATION STUDY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DECONTAMINATION; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELASTOMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION;

EID: 2342539800     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1113     Document Type: Article

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