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Fibrous based materials with exceptional functionalities have become a target of interest for researchers worldwide. One promising strategy for the development of active fibrous structures with improved functions is their functionalization with nanoparticles (NPs). In this work, jute fabrics were functionalized with calcium oxide (CaO) and silica (SiO2) NPs in order to obtain fibrous structures with several properties including, hydrophobicity, UV protection, antibacterial activity and the degradation of dyes ability. CaO and SiO2 NPs were synthesized via a simple in situ method, using sodium hydroxide (NaOH) as the reducing agent and water as solvent. Parallelly, the in situ synthesis of the CaO NPs was also tested. The final systems were fully characterized using Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Ground-State Diffuse Reflectance and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy. All these techniques confirmed the successful synthesis of the NPs as well as their well distributed presence onto the fabrics. The samples exhibited very good contact angle values, reaching 143.7° for the fabrics functionalized with CaO and SiO2 NPs and great values of ultraviolet (UV) protection factors (UPF), reaching 50+ for the functionalized fabrics. The developed systems also exhibited antibacterial activity against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli and photocatalytic activity for the degradation of methylene blue. The wash durability of the nanocoating was also evaluated, confirming that the SiO2 improved the NPs’ anchorage onto the fabrics. Overall, this work presents for the first time, the development of jute fabrics with CaO–SiO2 NPs with several functionalities.
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The authors are thankful to project UID/CTM/00264/2019 of 2C2T—Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia Têxtil, funded by National Founds through FCT/MCTES- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, TSSiPRO project, operation code NORTE 01-0145-FEDER-000015, supported by the “Programa Operacional Regional do Norte” number NORTE-45-2015-02 and to the FCT PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/147812/2019) of Joana Araújo. Diana Ferreira is thankful to CEECIND/02803/2017. Pilar Teixeira is also thankful to FCT, under the scope of the strategic funding of UIDB/04469/2020 unit and BioTecNorte operation (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000004) funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the scope of Norte2020—Programa Operacional Regional do Norte.
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Joana C. Araújo was responsible for the experimental part and wrote the paper. Diana P. Ferreira supervised the work and also wrote the paper. Pilar Teixeira performed the antibacterial activity tests and participated in the writing of the paper. Raul Fangueiro also supervised the work.
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Araújo, J.C., Ferreira, D.P., Teixeira, P. et al. In-situ synthesis of CaO and SiO2 nanoparticles onto jute fabrics: exploring the multifunctionality. Cellulose 28, 1123–1138 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03564-1
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