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Development of Illuminant Glow-in-the-Dark Cotton Fabric Coated by Luminescent Composite with Antimicrobial Activity and Ultraviolet Protection

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The main objective of technical protective clothing is to enhance people safety at work, which may save their life or keep them healthy away against some hazards. We developed a warning cotton fabric with a traffic safety warning photoluminescence character that continues emitting light for a long period of time after the removal of the illuminant source. Rare earth-doped strontium aluminate was dispersed in an aqueous medium of a polyacrylic-based binder to give a cross-linkable photoluminescent formula to be applied onto cotton substrate employing spray-coat approach. To introduce a transparent photoluminescent film, the Rare earth pigment must be fully dispersed to prevent aggregation. The long-persistent photoluminescent layer was deposited on cotton surface employing different concentrations of the rare earth pigment phosphor. The excitation wavelength maximum band of the spray-coated film on cotton fabric was found to occur at 365 nm, while the emission was recorded at 515 nm. Yellowish-green emissive color was monitored by CIE color data under the ultraviolet excitation source. The spray-coated fabric was characterized by wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence (WD-XRF), phosphorescence and excitation spectra, elements mapping, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX). The comfort measurements were studied by exploring both of fabric stiffness and air-permeability. Furthermore, the spray-coated textile substrates displayed good fastness properties and a reversible luminescent glow in the dark.

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Technical support from National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt; is gratefully acknowledged. This work was funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University through the Research Groups Program Grant no. (RGP-1440-0002).

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  1. Dyeing, Printing and Auxiliaries Department, Textile Industries Research Division, National Research Centre, 33 El-Buhouth Street, Dokki, Cairo, 12622, Egypt

    Tawfik A. Khattab & Meram S. Abdelrahman

  2. Pretreatment and Finishing of Cellulosic-based Fibers Department, Textile Industries Research Division, National Research Centre, 33 El-Buhouth Street, Dokki, Cairo, 12622, Egypt

    Moustafa M. G. Fouda

  3. Department of Biology, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Sarah I. Othman, May Bin-Jumah, Maha Abdulla Alqaraawi & Haifa Al Fassam

  4. Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, 65211, Egypt

    Ahmed A. Allam

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Khattab, T.A., Fouda, M.M.G., Abdelrahman, M.S. et al. Development of Illuminant Glow-in-the-Dark Cotton Fabric Coated by Luminescent Composite with Antimicrobial Activity and Ultraviolet Protection. J Fluoresc 29, 703–710 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-019-02384-2

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