1. The document lists 12 publications by M. Amine Abou-State, Naglaa Y. S. Mostafa, Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, and Nadia A. Mohamed relating to chemical treatments of cotton and cotton linters as well as synthesis and characterization of antimicrobial polymers. 2. The publications cover topics such as anthraquinone pulping, alkaline hydrogen peroxide pulping, organosolve pulping, and refining of prehydrolysed pulp to produce highly reactive cotton, as well as synthesis of various antimicrobial copolymers and composites. 3. More recent publications by Nadia A. Mohamed and Nahed A. Abd

1. List of publications
1- M. Amine Abou-State, Naglaa Y. S. Mostafa and Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Chemical cotton with high
reactivity towards xanthation , Chem. Ind. (London) , 14, 489, 1987; Patent application No 194, dated 2/ 4 /1987,
Patent office A.R.E.
2- Abou-State, M. A., Helmy, S.A., and El-Ghany, N.A.A.,Anthraquinone pulping and its effects on the
supermolecular structure and accessibility of cotton cellulose. Paper presented at the tenth cellulose conference,
May 29 June 2, 1988 state university of New-York Syracuse,USA.
3- M. A., Abou-State, N.Y.S. Mostafa and N.A.A. El-Ghany, Alkaline hydrogen peroxide pulping and its effects
on the supermolecular structure and accessibility of cotton cellulose. Proceedings of cellucon 88, November 28-
December 1, 1988, Kyoto, Japan, p.111; Published in Cellulose, structural and functional aspects,28, 1988.
4- Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Organosolve pulping of cotton linters. Cellulose Chem. Technol., 43 (9-10), 419-426,
2009.
5- Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Highly reactive cotton linters from refining of prehydrolysed AQ-Soda pulp.
Cellulose Chem. Technol.,44 (7-8), 255-264, 2010.
6- Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Organosolve pulping of cotton linter. II. Effect of dioxane and anthraquinone on
cotton linter properties. Cellulose Chem Technol,46 (1-2), 137- 145, 2012.
7- Nadia A. Mohamed and Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Activity of
Carboxymethyl Chitosan-Graft-Poly(N-acryloyl,N′- cyanoacetohydrazide) Copolymers. J. Carbohydrate
Chemistry, 31:220-240, 2012.
8- Nadia A. Mohamed and Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Preparation and antimicrobial activity of some
carboxymethyl chitosan acyl thiourea derivatives. Int. J. Biological Macromolecules 50, 1280-1285, 2012.
9- Nadia A. Mohamed and Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of some novel
terphthaloyl thiourea cross-linked carboxymethyl chitosan hydrogels. Cellulose, 19:1879-1891, 2012.
10- Nadia A. Mohamed, Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Mona M. Fahmy and Marwa H. Ahmed.
Thermally stable antimicrobial PVC/ maleimido phenyl urea composites. Polym. Bull.,
(2014) 71:2833- 2849
11- Nadia A. Mohamed, Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Mona M. Fahmy and Marwa H. Ahmed.
Thermally Thermally stable antimicrobial PVC/ maleimido aromatic hydrazide composites,
Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology, Article first published online: 6 AUG 2014.
12- Nadia A. Mohamed, Nahed A. Abd El-Ghany, Mona M. Fahmy and Marwa H. Ahmed,
Thermally Stable Antimicrobial PVC/ Maleimido Phenyl Thiourea Composites. Advances in
Polymer Technology (accepted for publication, 2015).