Microwave and Nanotechnology Advanced Solutions to Improve Ecofriendly Cotton's Coloration and Performance Properties | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Chemistry | ||
| Article 10, Volume 61, Issue 3, May and June 2018, Pages 493-502 PDF (1.01 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejchem.2018.2927.1270 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Tarek Abou Elmaaty* 1; Eman Abdelaziz2; Dalia Nasser3; Khaled Abdelfattah4; Sherif Elkadi5; Khaled Ibrahim El-Nagar6 | ||
| 1textile printing, dyeing & finishing/Faculty od Applied arts/Damietta Univ | ||
| 2Benha University department of textile printing, dyeing and finishing | ||
| 3instructor department of textile printing, dyeing and finishing | ||
| 4Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, Damietta University, Egypt. | ||
| 5Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Faculty of Agriculture, Damietta University, Egypt. | ||
| 6National Institute for standards | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research aims to utilize microwave energy and nano technology to improve the printability and performance of cotton prints via screen printing technique. Each cotton sample was individually pre-treated by microwave power ranged from 300 to 700 watts and for a period ranged from 1 to 9 min. Afterwards the optimum sample was printed by printing paste containing Remazol™ reactive dye and silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) with different concentrations. The printed samples were fixed using microwave energy then were subjected to steaming or thermo-fixation. The obtained results clarified that, the prints obtained using microwave and Ag-NPs were found to have better color strength, fastness properties, antibacterial behavior and surface morphology when they were compared to the conventional techniques using thermo-fixation and steaming. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| microwave; Nanotechnology; printing; Cotton; silver nanoparticles; antimicrobial textiles | ||
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