Antimicrobial silica particles loaded with quaternary ammonium polyethyleneimine network

  • Shady Farah
  • , Oren Aviv
  • , Natalia Laout
  • , Stanislav Ratner
  • , Nurit Beyth
  • , Abraham J. Domb*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Silica particles functionalized with quaternary ammonium groups were prepared by interpenetrating polyethylenimine (PEI) into silica particles and crosslinking with diiodopentane, followed by octyliodide alkylation and methyliodide quaternarization (S-QA-PEI). The synthesized S-QA-PEI particles were identified with a slight particle size increase of 2-3μm. Different ratios of PEI:silica particles were prepared and analyzed. While silica particles are negatively charged, -16.7±5.11mV, the prepared S-QA-PEI particles are positively charged, +50-60mV. These particles were embedded in poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) and poly(ethylene methacrylic acid) coatings which exhibited strong antibacterial activity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)689-692
Number of pages4
JournalPolymers for Advanced Technologies
Volume25
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jun 2014

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© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Keywords

  • Antimicrobial surface
  • Interpenetrating polymer network
  • Polyethylenimine (PEI)
  • Silica particles

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