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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Connexis, SG;
Mareva B. Fevre, San Jose, CA (US);
James L. Hedrick, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Nathaniel H. Park, San Jose, CA (US);
Victoria A. Piunova, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Pang Kern Jeremy Tan, Singapore, SG;
Chuan Yang, Hillington Green, SG;
Yi Yan Yang, Singapore, SG;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, Singapore, SG;
Abstract
Techniques regarding killing of a pathogen with one or more ionene compositions having antimicrobial functionality are provided. For example, one or more embodiments can comprise a method, which can comprise contacting amicrobe with a chemical compound. The chemical compound can comprise an ionene unit. Also, the ionene unit can comprise a cation distributed along a molecular backbone. The ionene unit can have antimicrobial functionality. The method can further comprise electrostatically disrupting a membrane of themicrobe in response to the contacting.