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The presented study introduces an approach for coating to realize antimicrobial textile surfaces without the use of nanoscaled metal particles. Bactericidal metal ions were used instead of elementary metal particles and stored in alginates, which were fixed on the textile substrate by a coating application. A newly developed coating process for fixation was conducted which was derived from a polyester dyeing process leading to a significantly higher antimicrobial activity than the application of a common sol–gel coating. For this purpose, a specific coating agent was developed. Antimicrobial testing was done by a viability assay against Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The promising results in antibacterial activity could probably in the future lead to useful coating applications for textiles as well as for other polymeric substrates.
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The IGF-Project 16876N of the research association Forschungskuratorium Textile. V., Reinhardtstraße 12-14, 10117 Berlin is supported by the AiF within the scope of the support program of the “Industrielle Gemeinschaftsforschung und -entwicklung (IGF)” by the Ministry of Economics and Technology due to a decision of the German Bundestag. The funding of the SEM/EDS-Equipment by the program “FH-Basis” of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is gratefully acknowledged.
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Grethe, T., Haase, H., Natarajan, H. et al. Coating process for antimicrobial textile surfaces derived from a polyester dyeing process. J Coat Technol Res 12, 1133–1141 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11998-015-9709-9
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