Bio-Based Polymers against Viral, Bacterial, and Fungal Pathogens

Dear Colleagues,

Scientists, engineers, and biotechnologists are called to take urgent action providing realistic solutions to the societal challenges that are compromising the present and future generations’ wellbeing. Among them, microbial resistance and sustainable development are of great importance due to their direct impact on the global economic and social burden. Microbial resistance is today at the center of international health strategies to overcome the devastating incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we must be aware of future bacterial, viral, and fungal dangers that may imperil our societies worldwide.

In this context, polymer science is playing a pivotal role in facing these problems by providing a new generation of materials that can be obtained from renewable resources and be modified or processed in combination with antimicrobial substances and patterned microstructures with the capacity to limit or even rid the bacterial, viral, and fungal capability to adhere, proliferate, and survive in contact with bioactive surfaces.

This Special Issue of Applied Sciences aims to focus on the most recent advances obtaining antimicrobial sustainable materials with improved performance for application in antimicrobial food packaging, bacteriostatic textiles, antiviral polymers, barrier membranes, antifouling, antibacterial biomaterials, and polymer–drug conjugates.

Dr. Luis Rojo del Olmo
Guest Editor

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