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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Macromol Rapid Commun. 2017 Aug 28;38(20):10.1002/marc.201700216. doi: 10.1002/marc.201700216

Figure 2.

Figure 2

a. Chemical structure of the polymers used to make surface-attached polymer networks. Homopolymer series: amphiphilic repeat units only (m = 0, R = Methyl to Butyl); Copolymer series: R = butyl, m = 0, 0.1, 0.5, 0.9 and 1, respectively. b) Antimicrobial activity against S. aureus. Surviving colony forming units (CFUs, in %) are plotted vs. contact time for homopolymers with R = butyl and different layer thickness.[93] c) Antimicrobial activity against E. coli. Surviving colony forming units (CFUs, in %) are plotted vs. contact time for homopolymers with R = butyl and different layer thickness.[93] d) Correlation of antimicrobial activity of homopolymers and copolymers against E. coli and S. aureus after t = 30 min with swellability. Surviving colony forming units (CFUs, in %) are plotted vs. swellability in water.[52] e) Correlation of antimicrobial activity of homopolymers and copolymers against E. coli and S. aureus after t = 30 min with pK.[52] f) Correlation of cell toxicity with swellability for homopolymers and copolymers. Alamar Blue dye reduction (a measure of metabolic activity) of immortalized human keratinocytes is plotted versus swellability in water.[52, 93] Copyright: b.,c.: Al-Ahmad et al., 2014;[93] d-f. Zou et al., [52] published by The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015.