THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF COTTON FABRIC COATED WITH ELECTROSPINNING

Abstract

Electrospinning was patented by Formhals in 1934. Prior to the year 2000 electrospinning was the domain of only a few specialists; This situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Many research groups in research and industry work currently on electrospinning topic, the number of conferences or sessions at conferences devoted to electrospinning is continuously increasing. Electrospinning is a fabrication technique, which can be used to create nanofibrous nonwovens from a variety of starting materials. The structure, chemical and mechanical stability, functionality, and other properties of the mats can be modified to match end applications. On the other hand cellulosic polymers have gathered great interest in recent years in the field of nanoproducts useful for high-value applications. The electrospun cellulosic composite fibers with reliable thermal properties are suitable and promising in serving as thermo-regulating materials in many fields. Based on this information, in this study we applied cellulose acetate by electrospinning into a raw cotton fabric in order to examine electrospinning effect in thermal properties. In order to analize thermal behaviour samples were tested with a thermochromic camera. It was found that coating woven cotton fabric by electrospinning with cellulose acetate, reduced the rates of cooling and heating.

Keywords

• Electrospinning
• Thermocamera
• Cotton fabric
• Woven fabric
• Collulose acetate