Biography
Biography: El Refaie Kenawy
Abstract
Microbial infection remains one of the most serious complications in several areas. Particularly in medical devices, drugs, health care and hygienic applications, water purification systems, hospital and dental surgery equipment, textiles, food packaging and food storage. Polymeric antibiotics gain interest from both the academic research and industry due to their potential to provide quality and safety benefits to many materials. Low molecular weight antibiotics suffer from so many disadvantages such as toxicity to the environment, and short-term aability and bacterial resistance. To overcome problems associated with the low molecular weight antibiotics, they are prepared by based on polymer molecules. The use of antibiotics based on polymers offers promise for enhancing the efficacy of some existing antibiotics and introducing new antibiotics to the market. The new development prolonging the lifetime of the novel antibiotics. Research concerning the development of the novel antibiotics represents a great a challenge for both academic world and industry. This lecture reviews the state of the art of the novel antibiotics. In particular, it is discussing the requirements of the novel antibiotics, factors affecting their activities, methods of synthesizing them. Some fields of applications and future and perspectives in the field.