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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2014
Applicant:
Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Nan Loh Yang, Staten Island, NY (US);
Ashish Punia, Staten Island, NY (US);
Assignee:
Research Foundation of the City University of New York, New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F 220/36 (2006.01); C08F 220/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F 220/36 (2013.01); C08F 220/34 (2013.01);
Abstract
A polymer with antibacterial activity is provided. The polymer has multiple groups of cationic amines, each group spaced from the polymer backbone by alkylene spacers of different lengths. The resulting polymer maintains significant antibacterial activity while having reduced hemolytic activity relative to a homopolymer that uses hexylene spacers.