Polyacrylamide-based Antimicrobial Copolymers to Replace or Rescue Antibiotics
Shoshana C. Williams, Madeline B. Chosy, Carolyn K. Jons, Changxin Dong, Alexander N. Prossnitz, Xinyu Liu, Hector Lopez Hernandez, Lynette Cegelski, Eric Andrew Appel
This paper develops polyacrylamide-based copolymers as broad-spectrum antibiotics effective against multiple pathogens and shows they can restore the efficacy of existing antibiotics.
ACS Central Science · Mar 13, 2025Peer-reviewedBioengineering