A common and very challenging topic in nowadays research is the design of coatings for antimicrobial surfaces[1]. Antimicrobial surfaces are needed in a widespread field of applications that extends over food packaging, textiles, medical devices or water filtration systems[2]. The most challenging part in all application fields is to defeat the biofilm. The main focus of our research group is on using copolymers for medical devices[3]. In general, structure-property dependencies of antimicrobial polymers are currently highly investigated[4,5]. Recently, molecular weight and composition dependant properties as well as the molecular architecture were investigated with different copolymer systems[4]. But also photo-activate polymers are of great interest[6].
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