“…Monomers containing tertiary amino groups, such as 2-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) and 4-vinyl pyridine (4VP), have been extensively used in synthesizing antimicrobial polymers via surface graft polymerization (Figure 3) (Fan et al, 2005;Koplin et al, 2008;Yuan et al, 2009aYuan et al, ,b,c, 2010aYang et al, 2014). As an example of water-soluble polyamine, polyethyleneimine has not only been employed in preparing antimicrobial coatings (Milovic et al, 2005;Huang et al, 2008;Aguirre et al, 2017), but also been used as a corrosion inhibitor to protect steel (Braunecker and Matyjaszewski, 2007;Kugel et al, 2011;Rajasekar and Ting, 2011).…”