Marta Fernández-García

TL;DR: The state of the art in the field of antimicrobial polymeric systems during the last decade is described in this paper, where a classification of the different materials is carried out dividing basically those synthetic polymers that exhibit antimicrobial activity by themselves; those whose biocidal activity is conferred through their chemical modification; those that incorporate antimicrobial organic compounds with either low or high molecular weight; and those that involve the addition of active inorganic systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the approaches developed to prepare and characterize porous structured materials by using the breath figures (BF) methodology is presented, where the authors analyze the topographical modifications of the surface that can be tuned with this approach, such as the control of pore characteristics, changes in the pore morphology or use of nonplanar substrates to create the porous materials among others.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a vision for the continuous progress in antimicrobial nanomaterials, including self-assembly, nanoprecipitation, and electrospinning.

TL;DR: The presented materials display an unprecedented performance in the killing of both Gram positive and negative bacteria without the necessity of being release to the media and an easy degradation under sunlight which favorably competes with biodegradation procedures.

TL;DR: This review presents different strategies that combine nanoscience and nanotechnology in the polymer world to combat contaminations from bacteria, fungi or algae in health, food, agriculture, and textiles.