Physical and chemical properties of wool surface significantly affect the absorbency,rate of dye bath exhaustion and fixation of the industrial dyes.Hence,surface modification is a necessary operation prior to colorat...Physical and chemical properties of wool surface significantly affect the absorbency,rate of dye bath exhaustion and fixation of the industrial dyes.Hence,surface modification is a necessary operation prior to coloration process in wool wet processing industries.Plasma treatment is an effective alternative for physiochemical modification of wool surface.However,optimum processing parameters to get the expected modification are still under investigation,hence this technology is still under development in the wool wet processing industries.Therefore,in this paper,treatment parameters with the help of simple dielectric barrier discharge plasma reactor and air as a plasma gas,which could be a promising combination for treatment of wool substrate at industrial scale were schematically studied,and their influence on the water absorbency,mechanical,and dyeing properties of twill woven wool fabric samples are reported.It is expected that the results will assist to the wool coloration industries to improve the dyeing processes.展开更多
基金financially supported by the China National Textile & Apparel Council (2013‘Textile Vision’ Applied Basic Research,2013-153)the Collaborative Innovation Plan of Hubei Province for Key Technology of Eco-Ramie Industry (2014–8)
文摘Physical and chemical properties of wool surface significantly affect the absorbency,rate of dye bath exhaustion and fixation of the industrial dyes.Hence,surface modification is a necessary operation prior to coloration process in wool wet processing industries.Plasma treatment is an effective alternative for physiochemical modification of wool surface.However,optimum processing parameters to get the expected modification are still under investigation,hence this technology is still under development in the wool wet processing industries.Therefore,in this paper,treatment parameters with the help of simple dielectric barrier discharge plasma reactor and air as a plasma gas,which could be a promising combination for treatment of wool substrate at industrial scale were schematically studied,and their influence on the water absorbency,mechanical,and dyeing properties of twill woven wool fabric samples are reported.It is expected that the results will assist to the wool coloration industries to improve the dyeing processes.