Table 2.

Summary of polymeric systems and configurations that can be employed to prevent the adhesion of various microbes on surfaces. Following abbreviations were used: Staphylococcus (S.), Pseudomonas (P.), Candida (C.), Amphora (A.), Saccharomyces (Sc.) and Escherichia (E.). Efficacy for biopassive systems refers to how many times fewer microbes were attached to the antiadhesive surfaces in a certain time as compared to their analogs.

Antimicrobial Polymer	Configuration/ Nanostructure	Dimension	Antimicrobial Mechanism	Efficacy	Microbe of Interest	Ref.
PEG	Nanofibers	167–184 nm diameter	Biopassive	~2–7 times	S. epidermidis	[105]
PEG	Brushes	2.8–23.7 nm length	Biopassive	~6 times ~6–8 times ~25 times ~4 times	P. aeruginosa C. albicans S. epidermidis C. tropicalis	[103]
PEG catechol	Multilayered films	5.2 nm thick	Biopassive	~8 times	A. coffeaeformis	[104]
PSBMA	Brushes	10–15 nm thick	Biopassive	~12 times ~7 times	Marine alga Ulva Diatom Navicula	[106]
PMPDSAH	Brushes	4.4 nm thick	Biopassive	-	Marine diatoms	[138]
PSBMA PCBMA	Thin-films	<25 µm thick	Biopassive	~10 times ~10 times	S. aureus S. epidermidis	[134]
PDADMAC/PAA, PAH/PAA	PEM structure	30–150 nm thick	Biopassive	~5 times	Sc. cerevisiae	[140]
PBMA-co-EDMA	Porous films	<100 µm thick	Biopassive	-	P. aeruginosa	[107]
PMOXDA-co- PMETAC	Thin-films	200 nm diameter, 230 nm thick	Biopassive	- -	E. coli S. aureus	[108]
PSPMA, PHEMA	Brushes	57 nm diameter, 43 nm thick	Biopassive	~9 times	E. coli	[139]