The recent outbreaks of infectious diseases caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens have
sounded a piercing alarm for the need of new effective antimicrobial agents to guard public …

Cationic compounds are promising candidates for development of antimicrobial agents.
Positive charges attached to surfaces, particles, polymers, peptides or bilayers have been …

Currently, infections caused by drug-resistant bacteria have become a new challenge in anti-
infective treatment, seriously endangering public health. In our continuous effort to develop …

Discussing theory and transport, synthesis, processing, properties, and applications, this
second edition of a standard resource covers advances in the field of electrically conducting …

The past decades have seen significant research effort in the field of polymers for a range of
biomedical applications, driven by the promising prospect of these materials for realizing …

Foldamers are sequence-specific oligomers akin to peptides, proteins and oligonucleotides
that fold into well-defined three-dimensional structures. They offer the chemical biologist a …

Synthetic macromolecular antimicrobials are a highly promising class of therapeutics with
immense potential for combating multidrug resistant microbes. In contrast to conventional …

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and their mimics are emerging as promising antibiotic agents.
We present a library of “ampetoids”(antimicrobial peptoid oligomers) with helical structures …

Synthetic Mimics of Antimicrobial Peptides (SMAMPs) imitate natural host-defense peptides,
a vital component of the body's immune system. This work presents a molecular construction …

Many significant fundamental concepts and practical applications have developed since the
publication of the best-selling second edition of the Handbook of Conducting Polymers. Now …