International Journal of Engineering Research

  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 12

Anti-microbial Polymers for Textile & other Application

1Department of Fibers and Textile Processing Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

2Department of Polymer Engineering and Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Human security and prosperity is debilitated by microorganisms causing various irresistible illnesses bringing about countless consistently. Notwithstanding considerable advance in antimicrobial drugs, numerous irresistible sicknesses stay hard to treat. Antimicrobial polymers offer a promising antimicrobial procedure for battling pathogens and have gotten extensive consideration in both scholastic and modern research. This audit presents antimicrobial polymers. Antimicrobial systems displaying either detached or dynamic activity and polymer material sorts containing bound or draining antimicrobials are presented. This article moreover addresses the utilizations of these antimicrobial polymers in the medicinal, nourishment, and material enterprises.

Keywords

Chitosan, Polysiloxanes, Dendrimers, Electrospun, Flocculant