Content:
Leather and leather products are known for its durability and luxuries which makes it more unique among the other synthetic materials. Breathability and visco-elastic properties make leather unique choice of
biomaterial. Utilization of leathers in marine based applications is limited owing to reactivity of leather towards salt and weather conditions. Moreover, the choice of raw materials and chemicals used during
leather manufacture has greatly influence the properties of the leather. An attempt has been made to understand the influence of sea conditions on leathers. Conventional chrome tanned and vegetable
tanned leathers were incubated in sea water and subsequently processed into post tanning to evaluate the physical properties. To understand, the leaching of chemicals, dyed leathers are incubated at different humidity and saline conditions. Interestingly, chrome tanned leathers found to be friendlier to marine conditions whereas, vegetable tanned leathers lead to leaching of chemicals. Furthermore, leaching of chromium is negligible, and crust leathers resulted in soft leathers. Prolonged exposure of chrome tanned leathers under salt stress leads to more softness. This might be due to saline stress to the skin matrix. Moreover, the computability of conventional leather chemicals were also tested using sea water. The research provides a new insight on fine tuning the chemicals to suit marine based applications.
Take-Away:
A new insight on fine tuning the chemicals to suit marine based applications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:34261 |
| Date | 28 June 2019 |
| Creators | Jayakumar, Gladstone Christopher |
| Contributors | International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies |
| Publisher | Verein für Gerberei-Chemie und -Technik e. V., Forschungsinstitut für Leder und Kunststoffbahnen (FILK) gGmbH |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-340872, qucosa:34087 |
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