purchased from Goodfellow Cambridge Ltd. (Huntingdon, UK). Acetic
acid glacial was purchased from VWR Chemicals (Lutterworth, UK). The
SYLGARD 184 elastomer kit was purchased from Dow Corning Corporation
(Midland, UK). Kollidon 90F was purchased from BASF (Ludwigshafen,
Germany). Escherichia coli (E. coli, ATCC 25922) and Staphylococcus
aureus (ATCC 29213) were obtained from the American
Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Buckinghamshire, UK). The LIVE/DEAD
BacLight Bacterial Viability Kit L13152 was purchased from Thermo
Fisher Scientific (Paisley, UK). Other chemicals used in this study
were purchased from Merck Life Science UK Ltd. (Dorset, UK) without
further purification.