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Protective textiles from Ag-decorated forest-like amorphous TiO2 on cotton fabric

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Forest-like amorphous TiO2 layer was successfully deposited on cotton fabric, to improve its protective performance including infrared (IR) shielding, UV shielding, and hydrophobic performance, Ag nanoparticles were further decorated on its surface using magnetron sputtering technology. To protect the coated functional layers, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was employed. The protective fabric was investigated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction, and physical performances were evaluated by Infrared spectrometer, UV–Vis spectrometer, contact angle analyzer. The results indicated that the protective fabric showed excellent IR shielding, UV shielding, and hydrophobic performance, even after 10 times washing treatment for common commercial washing machine. The as-prepared PDMS@Ag@TiO2@cotton fabric shows great potentials as a protective textile.

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We gratefully acknowledge the Grant (Project No. 2022-090) from Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China.

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We gratefully acknowledge the Grant (Project No. 2022-090) from Research Project Supported by Shanxi Scholarship Council of China.

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  2. College of Materials and Energy, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Gunagdong, China

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PQ contributed to the investigation, data curation, software, validation, resources, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. JX contributed to the conceptualization, methodology, data curation, writing—review and editing. QX contributed to supervision, conceptualization, methodology, project administration, and review.

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Qiu, P., Xu, J. & Xu, Q. Protective textiles from Ag-decorated forest-like amorphous TiO2 on cotton fabric. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 34, 1099 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-023-10485-9

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