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Structural, thermal and antibacterial properties of polyamide 11/polymeric biocide polyhexamethylene guanidine dodecylbenzenesulfonate composites

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Antimicrobial polyamide 11 (PA-11) films containing low-cost, thermally stable and water resistant polymeric biocide polyhexamethylene guanidine dodecylbenzenesulfonate (PHMG-DBS) have been obtained by compression moulding. The structure of the modified PA-11 films containing from 3 to 10 wt% of PHMG-DBS was characterized using Raman and FTIR spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The surface properties were evaluated both by contact angle and contactless inductive method. The introduction of PHMG-DBS into PA-11 films was found to increase positive surface charge density to 5.5·10−11 C/cm2 for 10 wt% of PHMG-DBS. Antibacterial activity of PA-11/PHMG-DBS films against both Gram-positive (Escherichia coli) and Gram-negative (Bacillus subtilis) bacteria was demonstrated for films containing from 5 to 7 wt% of polymeric biocide. According to thermal investigations data, PA-11/PHMG-DBS composite has excellent thermal stability to at least 390 °C both in air and in argon atmosphere which indicates on its availability for the melt processing by common methods. It has also been found that polymeric biocide is highly resistant to leaching from PA-11 film.

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The authors are grateful to Arkema (USA) for providing PA-11 samples.

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  1. Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 50 Kharkivske Schose, Kyiv, 02160, Ukraine

    Sergiy Rogalsky, Oksana Tarasyuk & Yuriy Kyselov

  2. Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, Université du Maine, Avenue Olivier Messiaen, UMR CNRS 6283, 72085, Le Mans Cedex 9, France

    Jean-Francois Bardeau

  3. The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Materials Institute/Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology, 204 E Dean Keeton St., C2200, Austin, TX, 78712-0292, USA

    Hao Wu & Joseph H. Koo

  4. Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 148 Academika Zabolotnoho Str., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine

    Lyudmila Lyoshina & Olga Bulko

  5. Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 17 General Naumov Str, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine

    Stanislav Makhno & Tetiana Cherniavska

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Rogalsky, S., Bardeau, JF., Wu, H. et al. Structural, thermal and antibacterial properties of polyamide 11/polymeric biocide polyhexamethylene guanidine dodecylbenzenesulfonate composites. J Mater Sci 51, 7716–7730 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-0054-x

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