Amine Enrichment of Thin-Film Composite Membranes via Low Pressure Plasma Polymerization for Antimicrobial Adhesion

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 14644-14653

  Reis, Rackel ^a   Dumée, Ludovic F ^b   He, Li ^b   She, Fenghua ^b   Orbell, John D ^a   Winther Jensen, Bjorn ^c   Duke, Mikel C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

amine enrichment; antimicrobial properties; functional thin film coatings; nanoscale surface engineering; plasma polymerization

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; DESALINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THIN FILMS; WATER FILTRATION;

ANTI-MICROBIAL PROPERTIES; AVERAGE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE STREAMS; INTERFACIAL POLYMERIZATION; NANO-SCALE SURFACES; THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; THIN-FILM COATINGS; THIN-FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANE;

PLASMA POLYMERIZATION;

AMINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; PLASMA GAS; SILVER;

ADSORPTION; APOPTOSIS; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL SURVIVAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATERIALS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA GAS; PRESSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ADSORPTION; AMINES; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BIOFILMS; CELL SURVIVAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METAL NANOPARTICLES; PLASMA GASES; PRESSURE; SILVER; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84937064657     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01603     Document Type: Article

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