METHOD FOR TRANSFORMATION OF CONVENTIONAL AND COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT POLYMERS INTO DURABLE AND RECHARGEABLE ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERIC MATERIALS.

摘要

The present invention includes compositions and methods of making an antimicrobial polymer by mixing sterically hindered N-halo-amines with polymeric materials with a source of halides selected from sodium di-X-isocyanurate, sodium hypohalite, N-X-succinimide, and calcium hypohalite, and mixtures and combinations thereof, wherein X is selected from Cl or Br, and wherein the sterically hindered halo- amines are charged before or after mixing with the polymers, or combinations thereof.