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Comparison of water-based dyeing system and alkyl polyglucoside (APG) surfactant-based reverse micellar dyeing system with reactive dyes for cotton

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Reactive dyes of three primary colours used for exhaustion dyeing of cotton fabric in conventional water dyeing system and APG-based reverse micelle dyeing system, with D5 and alkane solvents as dyeing medium, were investigated. Calibration curves of both systems were established. Absorbance and dye concentration were found to be directly correlated with each other. The curves exhibited high linearity with R2 above 0.99, validating their suitability for subsequent SERF measurement. The values of substantivity factor (S), exhaustion factor (E), rate of fixation (R) and fixation factor (F) were measured and calculated in percentage. The results revealed that APG reverse micellar dyeing system obtains higher S and E, but lower R and F values than the conventional water dyeing system, verifying excellent final dye exhaustion and good leveling properties of the APG reverse micellar dyeing system when compared with the conventional aqueous dyeing system. The use of D5 and alkane solvents as dyeing medium causes no significant effect on the establishment of SERF profile in APG reverse micellar dyeing system.

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This work is supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No.: PolyU 15214621) for GRF in 2021/2022 Exercise and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Account code: 1-W19W).

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This work is supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No.: PolyU 15214621) for GRF in 2021/2022 Exercise.

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Conceptualization, C.K.; methodology, C.K., A.T., C.L. and Y.W.; validation, C.K., A.T., C.L. and Y.W.; formal analysis, C.K., A.T. and C.L.; investigation, A.T., C.L. and Y.W.; resources, C.K.; data curation, A.T., C.L. and Y.W.; writing—original draft preparation, A.T. and C.L.; writing—review and editing, C.K. and A.T.; visualization, A.T.; supervision, C.K.; project administration, C.K.; funding acquisition, C.K. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Tang, Y.L.A., Lee, C.H., Wang, Y. et al. Comparison of water-based dyeing system and alkyl polyglucoside (APG) surfactant-based reverse micellar dyeing system with reactive dyes for cotton. Cellulose 30, 4011–4023 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-023-05096-w

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