题目：A new class of contact active antimicrobial polymer and coating
报告人：Prof., Mary B CHAN-PARK，School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
时间：4月30日 (周三), 上午9:00
地点： 化学A楼演讲厅
邀请人：任吉存 教授（beat365）

报告摘要：
As the average life span of humans is increased, modern medical implants such as urinary catheters, hip prostheses, pacemakers, arteriovenous shunt, and contact lenses are ubiquitous. Infections can be caused when these devices were colonized by bacteria or fungi during implantation or afterwards. When that happens, the devices often have to be removed leading to medical complications and risks. There is a currently an overwhelming demand for self-sterilizing biomaterials that do not allow microbes to attach, survive, or at least proliferate on their surfaces. To minimize alterations of their bulk properties (e.g. mechanical strength or transparency), non-contaminating, non-toxic, biocompatible, broad spectrum antimicrobial coatings on these implants are needed.
Previous antimicrobial coatings are mainly based on drug-releasing or surface tethering strategies. The drug-release method is limited by their disadvantages. Normally these technologies require much larger quantities of the antimicrobial reagent than actually needed since they are gradually released, and they therefore pose great health hazards and contamination to the environment. Since the antimicrobial reagent is free to release from the surface, it shall be eventually exhausted and so has limited useful life. Moreover, the continuously and mostly unnecessary release of biocides promotes development of microbial resistance, which has been recognized as one of the major problems in modern public health. While the biocides surface tethering method overcomes some of these disadvantages, the antimicrobial activity is normally reduced after the immobilization.
We have developed contact active surfaces by covalent modification of a surface with polycationic hydrogel (1,2). These polycationic hydrogels would attract the anionic microbe membranes and contain large amounts of nanopores with dimensions large enough to receive the microbe membrane sections. We showed these hydrogels are highly effective towards a broad spectrum of microbes including Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and fungi. Further, these hydrogels are found to show in vitro and in vivo biocompatibility.
We have also developed antimicrobial polymer and peptide solutions that have broad spectrum activity, and also ultra-high selectivity of microbes over mammalian cells (3-7).
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(2) Zhou CC, et al, MB Chan-Park, Biomaterials, 2011
(3) Peng Li, et al, MB Chan-Park, Adv. Materials, 2012
(4) Zhou CC, et al, MB Chan-Park, Biomacromolecules, 2010
(5) Qi XB, MB Chan-Park, et al Nanoscale, 2011
(6) Qi XB, et al, MB Chan-Park, Biochem. Biophysical Comm., 2010
(7) Yuan W, MB Chan-Park, JPCC, 2008