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    Bai, Shan; Li, Xiaohui; Zhao, Yunhui; Ren, Lixia; Yuan, Xiaoyan

    ACS applied materials & interfaces, 03/2020, Letnik: 12, Številka: 10
    Journal Article

    Endoscopic surgery has gained widespread applications in various clinical departments, and endoscope surfaces with antifogging and antibacterial properties are essential for elaborate procedures. In this work, novel antifogging/antibacterial coatings were developed from a cationic copolymer and a hydrophilic copolymer, polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane-poly­(quaternary ammonium compound-co-2-aminoethyl methacrylate hydrochloride) POSS-P­(QAC-co-AEMA) and poly­(N-hydroxyethylacrylamide-co-glycidyl methacrylate) P­(HEAA-co-GMA) via a facile and green blending method. Such transparent coatings showed excellent antifogging performance under both in vitro and in vivo fogging conditions, mainly attributed to the high water-absorbing capability of HEAA and QAC. Antibacterial assays proved that the blending coatings had a superior antibacterial property, which could be improved with the proportion of POSS-P­(QAC-co-AEMA) because of the bactericidal efficiency of cationic QAC. Meanwhile, owing to the high hydratability of HEAA, the blending coatings exhibited a bacteria-repelling property. By simply tuning the blending ratio of POSS-P­(QAC-co-AEMA) and P­(HEAA-co-GMA), the comprehensive bacteria-killing and bacteria-repelling properties of the coatings were achieved. Moreover, after incubating with red blood cells, the prepared blending coatings presented a lower hemolytic rate of less than 5%. The findings provided a potential means for addressing the challenge of fogging and bacterial contamination occurring in endoscopic lenses and other medical devices.