Data supporting: Assessment of the performance of nonfouling polymer hydrogels utilizing citizen scientists

This dataset contains all data collected by citizen scientists in support of the publication: “Hansen N, Bryant A, McCormack R, Johnson H, Lindsay T, Stelck K, et al. (2021) Assessment of the performance of nonfouling polymer hydrogels utilizing citizen scientists. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0261817. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261817”. This study evaluates the performance of several commercially available nonfouling polymers using citizen science, to identify the best performing chemistry for future applications as bacteria resistant coatings. The specific polymer chemistries tested were zwitterionic sulfobetaine methacrylate (SBMA), and polyampholytes composed of [2-(acryloyloxy)ethyl] trimethylammonium chloride and 2-carboxyethyl acrylate (TMA:CAA) or TMA and 3-sulfopropyl methacrylate (TMA:SA). Each polymer chemistry is known to exhibit bacteria resistance, and this study utilizes a citizen science approach to compare the performance of these chemistries.