The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of different industrially-viable procedures on the deposition of selected zeolite particles on the surface of cellulose textiles. Thus, zeolites were applied onto cotton fabrics according to exhaustion and coat-dry-thermofix. Herein, the impact of numerous operational parameters during the individual application procedure (concentration of zeolites, addition of crosslinking agents and/or auxiliaries, temperature, treatment time, etc.) on the surface morphology of zeolite-modified cellulose textiles was studied by means of SEM and FTIR techniques.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19394070
The aim of this research was to apply four different types of zeolites in the form of a very fine powder together with different chemicals and auxiliaries on polyamide knitted fabric according to exhaustion procedure in order to study the changes in fabrics’ morphology and optical properties. The results obtained by surface morphology observation and identification of specific molecular vibrations of zeolite coated polyamide knitted fabrics proven the suitability of employed exhaustion procedure regarding the type of zeolite used as well as composition of treatment bath. Consecutively, the fabrics’ optical properties were changed in both, UV and visible regions, i.e. zeolite-treated samples become lighter. Moreover, reflectance curves of those PA fabrics treated only by zeolites without auxiliaries decreased the most in the spectrum’ UV region, implying stronger absorption intensity and thus, higher UV-rays blocking properties in comparison to the reference.
COBISS.SI-ID: 19394582