Antimicrobial Polymers

JOSé M. LAGARóN, PhD, is Founder and Group-Leader of the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Group of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Valencia, Spain. and is part-time Professor of Materials Science at the Universitat Jaume I. Dr. Lagaron has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers, a book and several book chapters, and has fourteen patent applications in nanotechnology applied to polymers. MARÍA J. OCIO, PhD, is a Food Technologist Tenure Track Lecturer at the Preventive Medicine Department of the University of Valencia and also project leader within the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Lab at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology of CSIC. She has a wide knowledge and experience in the handling of microorganisms of interest in the food industry. Dr. Ocio has over forty publications in peer-reviewed international journals.AMPARO LóPEZ-RUBIO, PhD, is a research scientist and project leader within the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Group of the IATA-CSIC. She has published over thirty-five papers in peer-reviewed international journals on the subjects of food technology, nanotechnology, packaging and biopackaging.

• PREFACE vii CONTRIBUTORS ix1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1Jose´ M. Lagaron, Maria J. Ocio, and Amparo Lopez-Rubio2 BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOCIDE PLASTICS 23Nibras A.A.M. Ahmed3 “CLICK CHEMISTRY” TO DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERS 51P. Lecomte, R. Riva, and C. Jerome4 CHITOSAN AND CHITOSAN BLENDS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 71Patricia Fernandez-Saiz5 THYMOL IN NANOCOMPOSITES. A CASE STUDY 101Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia6 BACTERIOCINS IN PLASTICS 117Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani7 ANTIMICROBIAL ENZYMES AND NATURAL EXTRACTS IN PLASTICS 159Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia Conte, and Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 195Jose F. Marcos and Paloma Manzanares9 RECOMBINANT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 227J. Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello, Carmen Garcia-Arevalo, Alessandra Girotti, Laura Martin, and Mercedes Santos10 NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING METHODS 261Sergio Torres-Giner11 SILVER- AND NANOSILVER-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 287Antonio Martinez-Abad12 ANTIMICROBIAL PLASTICS BASED ON METAL-CONTAINING NANOLAYERED CLAYS 317Jose´ M. Lagaron and Maria A. Busolo13 NANOMETALS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 327R.P. Allaker, M.A. Vargas-Reus, and G.G. Ren14 TITANIUM DIOXIDE-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 351Marta Fernandez-Garcia, Maria L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka, and Marcos Fernandez-Garcia15 TISSUE-IMPLANT ANTIMICROBIAL INTERFACES 379E. Marsich, A. Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo, and S. Paoletti16 CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CELL MEMBRANES AND ANTIMICROBIALS VIA SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY 429Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen17 GAS-BASED ANTIMICROBIALS IN ACTIVE PACKAGING 459Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim18 CURRENT LEGISLATION IN ANTIMICROBIALS 489Javier Gomez19 HUMAN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF BIOCIDES 527Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power, and Seamus FanningINDEX 561