The design of new highly effective polymer materials as active surfaces or coatings against microorganisms such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) is a major challenge for public health. In the present work, novel imidazolium ionic liquid monomers (ILMs) having a similar structure of conventional Bisphenol A diglycidyl ether epoxy prepolymer (DGEBA) have been designed without requiring to the use of toxic and carcinogenic compounds i.e. Bisphenol A and epichlorohydrin. Then, a facile and efficient polyaddition reaction-based polymerization via a one step process was used in order to prepare unprecedented antibacterial epoxy-amine networks. The ultimate role of the monomers architecture on the epoxy conversion as well as on the reactivity of the ...