A novel method is developed for imparting durable water repellency to cotton cellulosic fabrics based on ionic interactions. Most of the traditional water repellent finishing chemicals such as paraffin waxes, pyridinium compounds, formaldehyde based N-methylol crosslinkers, siloxanes and fluoro-carbon polymers are either non-durable to washing or environmentally unsafe or expensive. Our method includes cationization of cotton fabric with 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (CHTAC) followed by subsequent treatment with a salt of stearic acid to form ionic attractions between cationic groups of cationized cotton fabric and anionic groups of stearate anion. These ionic interactions hold the stearate or hydrophobic molecules on the surface of cotton fabric outwards giving durable water repellency without releasing any hazardous chemicals present in almost all other durable water repellent treatments for textiles.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NCSU/oai:NCSU:etd-06062008-145319 |
| Date | 16 June 2008 |
| Creators | Goli, Kiran Kumar |
| Contributors | Dr. David Hinks, Dr. Richard Spontak, Dr. Peter Hauser |
| Publisher | NCSU |
| Source Sets | North Carolina State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-145319/ |
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