PREFACE ....................................................... vii
CONTRIBUTORS ................................................... ix
1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION ..... 1
José M. Lagarón, Maria J. Ocio, and Amparo López-Rubio
2 BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOCIDE PLASTICS ..... 23
Nibras A.A.M. Ahmed
3 "CLICK CHEMISTRY" TO DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERS ......... 51
P. Lecomte, R. Riva, and C. Jérôme
4 CHITOSAN AND CHITOSAN BLENDS AS ANTIMICROBIALS .............. 71
Patricia Fernandez-Saiz
5 THYMOL IN NANOCOMPOSITES. A CASE STUDY ..................... 101
Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia
6 BACTERIOCINS IN PLASTICS ................................... 117
Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani
7 ANTIMICROBIAL ENZYMES AND NATURAL EXTRACTS IN PLASTICS ..... 159
Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia
Conte, and Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile
8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES ..................................... 195
Jose F. Marcos and Paloma Manzanares
9 RECOMBINANT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES ......................... 227
J. Carlos Rodríguez-Cabello, Carmen García-Arévalo,
Alessandra Girotti, Laura Martin, and Mercedes Santos
10 NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING METHODS ... 261
Sergio Torres-Giner
11 SILVER- AND NANOSILVER-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES .......... 287
Antonio Martinez-Abad
12 ANTIMICROBIAL PLASTICS BASED ON METAL-CONTAINING
NANOLAYERED CLAYS .......................................... 317
José M. Lagarón and Maria A. Busolo
13 NANOMETALS AS ANTIMICROBIALS ............................... 327
R.P. Maker, M.A. Vargas-Reus, and G.G. Ren
14 TITANIUM DIOXIDE-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 351
Marta Fernández-García, María L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka,
and Marcos Fernández-García
15 TISSUE-IMPLANT ANTIMICROBIAL INTERFACES .................... 379
E. Marsich, A. Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo,
and S. Paoletti
16 CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CELL V MEMBRANES
AND ANTIMICROBIALS VIA SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION
VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY ................................... 429
Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen
17 GAS-BASED ANTIMICROBIALS IN ACTIVE PACKAGING ............... 459
Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim
18 CURRENT LEGISLATION IN ANTIMICROBIALS ...................... 489
Javier Gómez
19 HUMAN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH
THE USE OF BIOCIDES ........................................ 527
Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power, and Séamus
Fanning
INDEX ......................................................... 561
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