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Cover Image, Volume 132, Issue 26
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.42216
Subject(s) - antifungal , cover (algebra) , polymerization , front cover , polymer science , chloride , polymer , chemistry , materials science , composite material , organic chemistry , engineering , dermatology , medicine , mechanical engineering
Joo Ran Kim and Stephen Michielsen demonstrate that nanostructured fabrics grafted with rose bengal (RB) and phloxine B (PB) have photodynamic antifungal effects on A. fumigatus . RB and PB are attached to vinyl benzyl chloride and subsequently polymerized with acrylic acid and styrene sulfonic acid, producing long, water‐soluble polymers attached to the fabric surface. The material is produced in high yields and shows photodynamic antifungal activity against A. fumigatus . The nanostructured fabrics have a greater surface area and reflectance percent compared to the microstructured fabrics, resulting in much higher photodynamic antifungal activity against A. fumigatus . (DOI: 10.1002/app.42114 )