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Copper Complex: A Key Role in the Synthesis of Biocidal Polymer Coatings

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A specific copper complex is used here for the development of new antibacterial coatings against two different bacteria strains i.e. Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Remarkably, the cationic polymerization of a glycerol-derived monomer was performed using an efficient Cu complex as a photoinitiator. The synthesized coatings which were successfully developed under UV–visible light exposure and under a solvent-free cationic photopolymerization process show excellent adhesion on stainless steel plate according to nanoindentation and scratch tests. The resulting glycerol-derived coatings have been conducted to assess the antibacterial activities against E. coli and S. aureus: a tremendous decrease of 99.9% and 96% of the adhered Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus on the surface of copper containing coatings has been demonstrated in comparison with bare stainless steel supports. Finally, our investigation suggests from live/dead assays data that the synthesized polymer films show biocidal properties due to the release of Cu2+ ions, which are responsible for inhibiting bacterial proliferation.

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The authors would like to thank CNRS, UPEC and French National Agency (sPECTRAL project) for financial support.

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  1. Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), 61, Avenue Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil Cedex, France

    Pauline Sautrot-Ba, Mathilde Laurent-Brocq, Valérie Langlois & Davy-Louis Versace

  2. Institut de Chimie et de Matériaux Paris-Est, Equipes Systèmes Polymères Complexes, UMR CNRS 7182, 2-8 rue Henri Dunant, 94320, Thiais, France

    Pauline Sautrot-Ba, Mathilde Laurent-Brocq, Valérie Langlois & Davy-Louis Versace

  3. Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse, IS2 M-LRC 7228, 15 rue Starcky, 68057, Mulhouse, France

    Assi Al Mousawi & Jacques Lalevée

  4. Laboratoire Roberval, UMR CRNS-UTC 7337, Centre de Recherche de Royallieu, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 60205, Compiègne Cedex, France

    Pierre-Emmanuel Mazeran

  5. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 702-701, South Korea

    So Jung Park & Inn-Kyu Kang

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Sautrot-Ba, P., Al Mousawi, A., Lalevée, J. et al. Copper Complex: A Key Role in the Synthesis of Biocidal Polymer Coatings. Chemistry Africa 2, 241–251 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42250-019-00045-2

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