Stability of a chitosan layer deposited onto a polyethylene surface |
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| Authors: | Elena Pâslaru Lidija Fras Zemljic Matej Bra?i? Alenka Vesel Irena Petrini? Cornelia Vasile |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Physical Chemistry of Polymers Department, , 700487 Iasi, Romania;2. Faculty of Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor, , SI‐2000 Maribor, Slovenia;3. Institute for Textile Chemistry, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory for Characterization and Processing of Polymers, University of Maribor, , SI‐2000 Maribor, Slovenia;4. Jo?ef Stefan Institute, , 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;5. Center of Excellence for Polymer Materials and Technologies, , 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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| Abstract: | A two‐step procedure was applied to obtain antimicrobial films; this procedure involved a corona treatment of the polyethylene (PE) surface and its chemical activation with 1‐ethyl‐3‐3‐dimethylaminopropyl] carbodiimide hydrochloride and N‐hydroxysuccinimide, and this led to the covalent bonding of chitosan on the PE surface. Electrochemical methods were used to investigate the stability of the deposited chitosan layer. The potentiometric and polyelectrolyte titrations showed that some amount of chitosan desorbed faster from the surface until equilibrium was reached and also that the grafted chitosan layer was more stable than the physically adsorbed one. The chitosan immobilized on the PE surface exhibited the expected antibacterial activity when tested against three bacteria, which included two Gram‐negative bacteria, Salmonella enteritidis and Escherichia coli, and one Gram‐positive bacterium, Listeria monocytogenes. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 130: 2444–2457, 2013 |
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| Keywords: | functionalization of polymers packaging polyolefins polysaccharides |
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