The present paper reports a detailed study on heat and moisture vapour transmission characteristics of different types of multilayered fabric ensembles. Two sets of multilayered fabrics have been prepared. In first set, two types of carded web produced from acrylic and polyester fibres with five different areal densities in each fibre type have been used as middle layer. In second set, differen...

ZnO nanoparticle-based multilayer nanocomposite films were fabricated on cationized woven cotton fabrics via layer-by-layer molecular self-assembly technique. For cationic surface charge, cotton fabrics were pretreated with 2,3-epoxypropyltrimethylammonium chloride (EP3MAC) by pad-batch method. XPS and SEM were used to examine the deposited nano-ZnO multilayer films on the cotton fabrics. The n...

The carbon black has been used in military fabrics to comply with the color requirements and infrared radiation lessening criteria. Currently, military industries don’t distinguish between fabrics with carbon black fibers or with carbon black into dyes or prints. The latter initially allows us to comply with the color specifications in the visible and infrared, but fabrics are degraded with use...

Weight reduction increased the amount of deposited polypyrrole (PPy) on the polyester (PET) fiber surface, leading to a considerable decrease in electrical resistance and improved heat generation capacity for the PPy coated PET fabrics. Application of DC voltages to an insulated roll of PPy-coated fabric increased the temperature to about 90 oC. This showed the suitability of these fabrics for ...

Cellulose fabrics were coated with single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) by a dip-drying process. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Raman spectroscopy analyses indicate the attachment of SWCNTs. The sheet resistance of SWCNT coated fabrics can be altered by modifying the raw cellulose fabrics with low pressure argon plasma. An initial plasma ablation of up to 3 min results in the decreas...

Extensive use of pressurized steam in the oil and gas sectors has led to incidents where workers were seriously injured. In this study a test device and procedure to measure heat transfer through fabrics during steam exposure were developed and evaluated. Several factors were considered while designing the test device to simulate work site conditions. Fabrics were exposed to steam at 2 distance...

In this work, graphene/Ag (GA/Ag) composite aerogels with the micro rough porous structure and conductive property polydimethylsiloxane(PDMS) low surface energy were used to prepare super-hydrophobic cotton fabric (GA/Ag/PDMS@cotton) was successfully prepared. The morphologies, chemical composition, wettability, microwave absorption of GA/Ag/PDMS@cotton characterized. It shown that GA/Ag PDMS c...

The inhomogeneity of the resistance conducting polypyrrole-coated nylon–Lycra and polyester (PET) fabrics its effects on surface temperature were investigated through a systematic experimental numerical work including optimization coating conditions to determine lowest resistivity conductive establish correlation between fabrication efficiency uniformity Joule heating in textiles. For this purp...

Multifunctional mulberry silk fabrics with excellent temperatureand pH-sensitivity, antibacterial properties and permeability are successfully prepared by surface modification with PNIPAAm/chitosan/poly(ethylene oxide) nanofibers. The nanofibers deposited on the surface of mulberry silk fabric are produced by the electrospinning technique. The surface properties of mulberry silk fabrics were ch...