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Recent advances in the application of plasma in textile finishing (A Review)

Journal of Textiles, Coloration and Polymer Science

T HE TEXTILE industry is seeking innovative manufacturing technology to increase the quality of the fabric, and society needs modern environmental finishing techniques, such as using plasma Treatment as atmospheric-pressure dielectric barrier discharge (APDBD) corona discharge at atmospheric pressure (CDAP) which are gaining popularity in the textile industry due to their many advantages over traditional wet processing methods the textiles industry is gaining in popularity. The initiation of plasma by air or conventional industrial gases, such as hydrogen H2, N2 and oxygen O2 at ambient pressures, may be accomplished. Plasm introduces usable surface groups to provide properties such as antibacterial, UV, flame retardant and antistatic that are used in various fabrics such as cotton, linen, polyester, and surface fabrics after plasma therapy.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Plasma Treatment of Textile Materials

2013

In the past 25 years we have focused our attention on plasma treatment of textile materials at the University of Wisconsin Madison. This presentation will cover the overview of some of these efforts. In particular, plasma treatments of textile materials to improve properties such as resistance to flame, water repellency, hydrophobicity, and dye-ability will be discussed. These improvements were achieved using both vacuum and atmospheric plasma pressure. The treated samples were analyzed using various scientific tools such as IR, FTIR, ESCM and ESCA. The desired end-use properties or the efficiency of each treatment was measured by the procedures recommended by the AATCC or ASTM technical manuals. Although Plasma treatment provides a unique opportunity for textile treatment, there are many advantages and disadvantages in comparison to the conventional wet processing of textiles.

Plasma application in textiles

Journal of Textiles, Coloration and Polymer Science, 2019

C HEMICAL modification of cellulosic fabrics was early used as a tool for imparting to it new properties and increasing its effective application for different end-uses. Nowadays, physical technologies can advantageously replace some of these chemical modifications as environmental friendly processes. Plasma treatment is considered one of these physical technologies applied to nearly all the synthetic and cellulosic textile fabric. It modifies the fiber surface and leaves the bulk characteristics unaffected. It is fast growing field and finds some potential applications as an environmentally friendly process. Plasma treatment does not involve handling of hazardous chemicals and thus there are no problems of effluents compared with the chemical treatment.

An Overview of the techniques of Plasma application in Textile Processing

Plasma treatment has an explosive increase in interest and use in industrial applications as for example in medical, biomedical, automobile, electronics, semiconductor and textile industry. A lot of intensive basic research has been performed in the last decade in the field of textiles along with technical textiles. This has resulted in an increasing knowledge of the possibilities of this process regarding demands as wettability, shrinkage resistance of wool, dyeability, printability, coating and wash ability of conventional and technical textile. Everyday problems of wettability and adhesion, together with the environmental driven forces have increased the interest of industry today. A fundamental problem at this moment for the implementation of the technique at a higher level is the lack of adapted machines. In this article some applications of plasma techniques in textile processing has been discussed.

Use of Plasma Technology for Modification of Textiles

2012

The use of non-thermal, oxygen and argon low-pressure plasmas for modification of cellulose textiles is discussed. The emphasis is given to the characterization of the complex micro-morphology and physical-chemical changes of the textile surface after plasma treatments, as well as on defining the impacts of these changes on the obtained final properties of textile materials treated in this way. SEM and AFM results confirmed the thesis that using oxygen and argon plasmas, two, essentially different, processes of textile surface ablation occurred ; the first is chemical etching and the second physical sputtering. Using the AFM, the fibre surface morphology was estimated at nanoscale. The measurements of the vertical rise of water in fabric sample and the results of the wetting time (vertical test and drop test) indicate the improvement of hydrophilic properties of all tested samples after low-pressure oxygen plasma treatment. The presented results confirm that the low-pressure plasma ...

Environmental impact of plasma application to textiles

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2007

Plasma technology is currently implemented in a wide range of industrial processes due to high efficiency, low environmental impact and simplicity. Low-temperature plasma treatment can be an alternative to traditional wet processes in textile preparation and finishing, causing modification of the fibre surface, which is mainly responsible for the material end-use properties i.e. wettability, dyeability, printability, shrinking, pilling etc. Appropriate choice of gas and control of plasma operation conditions provide a variety of effects on textiles (improvement of dyeability, printability and colour fastness, improvement of adhesion properties of coated fabrics, increase in hydrophobicity and water resistance, etc.). However, in spite of extraordinary efficiency, multifunctionality and simplicity, low-temperature plasma treatments still cannot replace all wet finishing processes, though they can be viable pretreatments that offer plenty of environmental and economical benefits.

New Advances in Plasma Technology for Textile

Journal of Fusion Energy, 2013

Plasma processing technologies are of vital importance to several of the largest manufacturing industries in the world. Foremost among these industries is the electronics industry, in which plasma-based processes are indispensable for the manufacture of very large-scale integrated microelectronic circuits. Plasma processing of materials is also a critical technology in, for example, the aerospace, automotive, steel, biomedical, and toxic waste management industries. Most recently, plasma processing technology has been utilized increasingly in the emerging technologies of diamond film and superconducting film growth. The dominant role of plasma-treated surfaces in key industrial sectors, such as microelectronics, is well known, and plasmas, certainly experimentally and, in places, industrially, are being used to modify a huge range of material surfaces, including plastics, polymers and resins, paper and board, metals, ceramics and in organics, and biomaterials. In the textile field, significant research work has been going on since the early 1980s in many laboratories across the world dealing with low temperature plasma treatments of a variety of fibrous materials showing very promising results regarding the improvements in various functional properties in plasma-treated textiles. The growing environmental and energy-saving concerns will also lead to the gradual replacement of many traditional wet chemistry-based textile processing, using large amounts of water, energy and effluents, by various forms of low-liquor and dry-finishing processes. Plasma technology, when developed at a commercially viable level, has strong potential to offer in an attractive way achievement of new functionalities in textiles. The objective of this work is to give a comprehensive description and review of the science and technology related to plasmas, with particular emphasis on their potential use in the textile industry.

Non-thermal plasma treatment of textiles

Surface and Coatings Technology, 2008

This article attempts to give an overview of the literature on the treatment of textiles with non-thermal plasmas. Because of the enormous amount of potential uses of non-thermal plasmas for the modification of textile products, categorizing the applications is difficult, and therefore a review is given on plasma treatment effects or results rather than on the textile applications that benefit from the treatment.

Application of Plasma Technology in Textile: A Nanoscale Finishing Process

Textile materials have intrinsic properties that make them very valuable, flexible, lightweight, strong, large surface to volume ratio, good touch, softness, etc. Because of this, they are excellent for imparting additional functionalities like hydrophobic, oleo phobic or antibacterial. Traditional wet methods for applying these finishes require the use of large amounts of chemicals, water and energy. Plasma is a dry processing technique and provides a solution to reduce the use of all three mentioned resources. In this overview, a discussion on how plasma can achieve on textile materials and what the current state of integration in textile processing has presented.