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Author: Jose Maria Lagaron , Maria Jose Ocio , Amparo Lopez-Rubio
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 1.002kg
ISBN: 9780470598221
ISBN 10: 0470598220
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 20 February 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
PREFACE vii CONTRIBUTORS ix 1 ANTIMICROBIAL PACKAGING POLYMERS. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 Jose´ M. Lagaron, Maria J. Ocio, and Amparo Lopez-Rubio 2 BACTERIAL RESISTANCE AND CHALLENGES OF BIOCIDE PLASTICS 23 Nibras A.A.M. Ahmed 3 “CLICK CHEMISTRY” TO DERIVED ANTIMICROBIAL POLYMERS 51 P. Lecomte, R. Riva, and C. Jerome 4 CHITOSAN AND CHITOSAN BLENDS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 71 Patricia Fernandez-Saiz 5 THYMOL IN NANOCOMPOSITES. A CASE STUDY 101 Maria Dolores Sanchez-Garcia 6 BACTERIOCINS IN PLASTICS 117 Gianluigi Mauriello and Francesco Villani 7 ANTIMICROBIAL ENZYMES AND NATURAL EXTRACTS IN PLASTICS 159 Marcella Mastromatteo, Marianna Mastromatteo, Amalia Conte, and Matteo Alessandro Del Nobile 8 ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 195 Jose F. Marcos and Paloma Manzanares 9 RECOMBINANT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES 227 J. Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello, Carmen Garcia-Arevalo, Alessandra Girotti, Laura Martin, and Mercedes Santos 10 NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS OBTAINED BY ELECTROSPINNING METHODS 261 Sergio Torres-Giner 11 SILVER- AND NANOSILVER-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 287 Antonio Martinez-Abad 12 ANTIMICROBIAL PLASTICS BASED ON METAL-CONTAINING NANOLAYERED CLAYS 317 Jose´ M. Lagaron and Maria A. Busolo 13 NANOMETALS AS ANTIMICROBIALS 327 R.P. Allaker, M.A. Vargas-Reus, and G.G. Ren 14 TITANIUM DIOXIDE-BASED PLASTIC TECHNOLOGIES 351 Marta Fernandez-Garcia, Maria L. Cerrada, Anna Kubacka, and Marcos Fernandez-Garcia 15 TISSUE-IMPLANT ANTIMICROBIAL INTERFACES 379 E. Marsich, A. Travan, I. Donati, G. Turco, F. Bellomo, and S. Paoletti 16 CHARACTERIZING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CELL MEMBRANES AND ANTIMICROBIALS VIA SUM-FREQUENCY GENERATION VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY 429 Christopher W. Avery and Zhan Chen 17 GAS-BASED ANTIMICROBIALS IN ACTIVE PACKAGING 459 Siriyupa Netramai, Maria Rubino, and Loong-Tak Lim 18 CURRENT LEGISLATION IN ANTIMICROBIALS 489 Javier Gomez 19 HUMAN SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF BIOCIDES 527 Orla Condell, Carol Iversen, Karen Power, and Seamus Fanning INDEX 561
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JOSé M. LAGARóN, PhD, is Founder and Group-Leader of the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Group of the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Valencia, Spain. and is part-time Professor of Materials Science at the Universitat Jaume I. Dr. Lagaron has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed papers, a book and several book chapters, and has fourteen patent applications in nanotechnology applied to polymers. MARÍA J. OCIO, PhD, is a Food Technologist Tenure Track Lecturer at the Preventive Medicine Department of the University of Valencia and also project leader within the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Lab at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology of CSIC. She has a wide knowledge and experience in the handling of microorganisms of interest in the food industry. Dr. Ocio has over forty publications in peer-reviewed international journals. AMPARO LóPEZ-RUBIO, PhD, is a research scientist and project leader within the Novel Materials and Nanotechnology Group of the IATA-CSIC. She has published over thirty-five papers in peer-reviewed international journals on the subjects of food technology, nanotechnology, packaging and biopackaging.
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