Techniques regarding polymers with antimicrobial functionality are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can regard a polymer, which can comprise a repeating ionene unit. The repeating ionene unit can comprise a cation distributed along a degradable backbone. The degradable backbone can comprise a terephthalamide structure. Further, the repeating ionene unit can have antimicrobial functionality.

Techniques regarding killing of a pathogen with one or more ionene compositions having antimicrobial functionality are provided. For example, one or more embodiments can comprise a method, which can comprise contacting a mycobacterium tuberculosis microbe with a chemical compound. The chemical compound can comprise an ionene unit. Also, the ionene unit can comprise a cation distributed along a molecular backbone. The ionene unit can have antimicrobial functionality. The method can further comprise electrostatically disrupting a membrane of the mycobacterium tuberculosis microbe in response to the contacting.

Reaction products of primary and secondary diamines and bisanhydrides are included as additives in metal electroplating baths. The metal electroplating baths have good throwing power and deposit metal layers having substantially planar surfaces. The metal plating baths may be used to deposit metal on substrates with surface features such as through-holes and vias.

The invention relates to an antiviral composition for the surface treatment of an article, comprising: at least one polyamide-polyamine-epichlorohydrin resin, known as PAAE resin, and one or more biocidal agents including at least one compound based on silver and/or one compound based on quaternary ammonium.

The invention also relates to a process for the surface treatment of an article, in particular a substrate, intended to give it antiviral properties, comprising the application to the surface of said article of one or more compositions comprising at least said PAAE resin and said biocidal agent(s), and also to an article surface-treated via said process.

There are provided herein, inter alia, complexes, compositions and methods for the delivery of therapeutic, diagnostic and imaging agents, including nucleic acid, into a cell. The complexes, compositions and methods may facilitate complexation, protection, delivery and release of oligonucleotides and polyanionic cargos into lung cells and lung tissue, both in vitro and in vivo.

A wood adhesive, a method for adhering wood materials using the same, and a composite wood structure using the same are disclosed. The wood adhesive comprises a first agent and a second agent, wherein the first agent comprises sodium carboxymethyl cellulose having a molecular weight from about 15,000 to about 500,000 and a degree of substitution from about 0.4 to about 2, and the second agent comprises polymeric quaternary amine.

Resins compositions and methods for making and using same. The resin composition can include a glyoxalated polyacrylamide resin and a polyamide-epihalohydrin resin. The polyamide-epihalohydrin resin can include a polyamine partially crosslinked with a bridging moiety and having azetidinium ions. The bridging moiety can be derived from a functionally symmetric crosslinker. A fiber product can include a plurality of fibers and the resin composition, where the resin composition can be at least partially cured.

Provided is a composition for forming a film for semiconductor devices, including: a compound (A) including a SiO bond and a cationic functional group containing at least one of a primary nitrogen atom or a secondary nitrogen atom; a crosslinking agent (B) which includes three or more C(?O)OX groups (X is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms) in the molecule, in which from one to six of three or more C(?O)OX groups are C(?O)OH groups, and which has a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 600; and a polar solvent (D).

A composition for forming a film for semiconductor devices including: a compound (A) including a cationic functional group containing at least one of a primary nitrogen atom or a secondary nitrogen atom and having a weight average molecular weight of from 10,000 to 400,000; a crosslinking agent (B) which includes the three or more C(?O)OX groups (X is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms) in the molecule, in which from one to six of three or more C(?O)OX groups are C(?O)OH groups, and which has a weight average molecular weight of from 200 to 600; and water (D), in which the compound (A) is an aliphatic amine.

Reaction products of primary and secondary diamines and bisanhydrides are included as additives in metal electroplating baths. The metal electroplating baths have good throwing power and deposit metal layers having substantially planar surfaces. The metal plating baths may be used to deposit metal on substrates with surface features such as through-holes and vias.