Issue 54, 2012

Water-dispersible and biodegradable polymer micelles with good antibacterial efficacy

Abstract

New amphiphilic ABC triblock copolymers have been designed and self-assembled into water-dispersible and biodegradable polymer micelles, which exhibit good antibacterial activities without quaternary ammonium moieties or the loading of any external antibiotics due to the increased local concentration of cationic charge in the polymer micelles compared to the un-self-assembled individual polymer chains.

Graphical abstract: Water-dispersible and biodegradable polymer micelles with good antibacterial efficacy

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Feb 2012
Accepted
10 May 2012
First published
16 May 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 6857-6859

Water-dispersible and biodegradable polymer micelles with good antibacterial efficacy

W. Yuan, J. Wei, H. Lu, L. Fan and J. Du, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6857 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC31529G

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements