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Development of breathable and liquid/microbes barrier woven surgical gowns for hospital usage

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Title Development of breathable and liquid/microbes barrier woven surgical gowns for hospital usage
 
Creator Krishnasamy, Jagatheesan
Senthilkumar, T
Neelakandan, R
 
Subject Antimicrobial cotton fabrics
Dual finish
Liquid repellent fabrics
Nanosilver
Surgical gowns
 
Description 453-464
An attempt has been made to develop a breathable woven surgical gown with antimicrobial and liquid repellent properties by finishing with nanoparticles of silver and fluorocarbon using pad-dry-cure method. Box-Behnken design has been used to optimize the coating parameters, i.e. concentrations of nanosilver (NS), nanofluorocarbon (NFC) and binder. The selected coating parameters has decisive influence on the fabric properties, such as air permeability, moisture vapour permeability, antimicrobial and tensile behaviour. The optimum coating parameters such as concentrations of NS, NFC and binder result in improved air permeability and moisture vapour permeability of the fabric for 3 g/L of NS and 40 g/L of NFC. The antibacterial activity of fabric is found to be higher for increased NS concentration and lower for increased NFC. In case of tensile properties of coated fabrics, the increase in NS concentration increases the tensile strength and decreases the bending modulus of fabrics.
 
Date 2017-12-13T07:42:29Z
2017-12-13T07:42:29Z
2017-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1025 (Online); 0971-0426 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/43242
 
Language en_US
 
Rights <img src='http://nopr.niscair.res.in/image/cc-license-sml.png'> <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/in' target='_blank'>CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India</a>
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJFTR Vol.42(4) [December 2017]