Improved antibacterial property of cotton fabrics coated with waste sericin/silver nanocomposite
| Autor: | Yavuz Gokce, Goksen Capar, Pervin Anis, Zeki Aktas, Egemen Kutlu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Antibacterial property
Textile industry Nanocomposite Reducing agent Chemistry business.industry Environmental pollution 02 engineering and technology Raw material 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics Pulp and paper industry 01 natural sciences Sericin 0104 chemical sciences SILK General Materials Science 0210 nano-technology business |
| Zdroj: | Materials Chemistry and Physics. 254:123508 |
| ISSN: | 0254-0584 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.123508 |
| Popis: | Sericin is a valuable protein with unique properties, however it is currently discarded as a waste in silk industry, which leads to economic losses and environmental pollution. This study focuses on the utilisation of recovered waste sericin as a potential antibacterial raw material in textile industry for the first time. Waste sericin was used as a reducing and stabilising agent in the production of sericin/silver nanocomposite samples with a binary reducing agent system containing NaOH and NaBH4. The nanocomposite samples were prepared with three different cross-linkers and applied to cotton fabrics at nanocomposite concentrations of 20 g/L and 40 g/L. The antibacterial performance against Escherichia Coli (E. Coli) and Staphylococcus Aureus (S. Aureus) was good; which remained even at the end of 20 wash cycles. The fabrics exhibited better mechanical properties in the presence of cross-linkers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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