Antimicrobial coatings

US7625579B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Unisearch Limited · AU

Inventors

• Roger Read · Sydney, AU
• Naresh Kumar · Sydney, AU
• Mark Wilcox · Sydney, AU
• Hua Zhu · Plainsboro, US
• Hnas Griesser · Cockatoo, AU
• Ben Muir · Melbourne, AU
• Helmut Thissen · Melbourne, AU
• Tim Hughes · Cockatoo, AU

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 2001
• Grant date: Dec 1, 2009
• Expiry date: May 28, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T442/2525
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention provides a substrate having a plurality of immobilised furanone moieties associated with at least part of a surface of the substrate. The invention also relates to articles consisting of or comprising such a substrate.