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Chemical cationization of cotton fabric for improved dye uptake

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Cotton fabric is usually dyed with reactive dyes. During the dyeing process, a large amount of salt is required to achieve higher exhaustion of the dye from the dyebath onto the fiber. Dyeing of cotton with reactive dyes has a substantial environmental impact due to the discharge of a large volume of highly colored and saline effluents. Chemical cationization allows cotton fibers to be dyed without salt by chemically modifying cellulosic macromolecules to introduce positively charged sites. In this study, cotton fabric was cationized using (3-chloro-2-hydroxylpropyl) trimethyl-ammonium chloride (CHPTAC). Dye uptake was assessed using two reactive dyes, CI Reactive Blue 235 and CI Reactive Blue 19. Dye exhaustion kinetics were determined using a Datacolor-HueMetrix Monitor system. Analysis of variance demonstrated significant effects of CHPTAC concentration and exhaustion time on the percent exhaustion. Color strength at the end of the dyeing cycle was significantly higher for cationized fabrics compared to the control fabric. This work shows that treatment of cotton with CHPTAC enhanced dye uptake properties due to the introduction of cationic sites and resulted in superior dyeing without the addition of salt.

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The authors would like to thank Bayer CropScience for financial support. Texas Tech University manuscript number T-4-659.

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  1. Department of Plant and Soil Science, Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Sanjit Acharya, Noureddine Abidi & Rajeev Rajbhandari

  2. Innovation Center, Bayer CropScience NV, Technologiepark 38, 9052, Ghent, Belgium

    Frank Meulewaeter

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Acharya, S., Abidi, N., Rajbhandari, R. et al. Chemical cationization of cotton fabric for improved dye uptake. Cellulose 21, 4693–4706 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-014-0457-2

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