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Self-cleaning Finishes for Functional and Value Added Textile Materials

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Advances in Functional Finishing of Textiles

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General consequences with textiles and clothing are becoming dirty after daily use and required frequent washing with detergent and water resulting wastage of time, money, and water. Recent trends is to develop self-cleaning textiles and clothing which can clean themselves without water and detergent. It is a natural tendency of textile surface to catch foreign particles as dirt as well as helps to grow bacteria. The broader characteristics of today’s self-cleaning textiles are water and oil repellency and anti-bacterial efficacy. Nature has plenty of evidences of such self-cleaning effects, e.g. Lotus leaf. Learning from nature mimicking of lotus effect can be achieved in textile substrate to achieve super hydrophobic surface that cannot be wetted by liquid and liquid droplet rolls over the surface like a pearl and clean the surface as well. Such self-cleaning effect can be achieved by coating the textile substrates with some active agents as functional finish. Various nanoparticles like TiO2, ZnO, Ag etc. can be applied on textile surface by various means to achieve such self-cleaning anti-microbial effects. This chapter review those nanotechnologies, materials, characteristics and limitations of such self-cleaning textiles in brief.

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  1. Department of Textile Technology, Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur, 208001, India

    Subhankar Maity

  2. Department of Textile Design, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, NIFT Campus, Mithapur Farms, Patna, 800001, India

    Kunal Singha & Pintu Pandit

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    Ravindra Adivarekar

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Maity, S., Singha, K., Pandit, P. (2020). Self-cleaning Finishes for Functional and Value Added Textile Materials. In: Shahid, M., Adivarekar, R. (eds) Advances in Functional Finishing of Textiles. Textile Science and Clothing Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3669-4_9

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