Smart fabrics out of the labs and sports. Fashion Week Innovation and Technology Plasma tissue dell’Ismac-CNR, along with other technologies implemented by the body for the clothing industry.
T-shirts that after some time produce unsightly “balls”, made shoes privilege of a few wealthy clients, jackets drenched in bad odor after a day indoors? A thing of the past thanks to technology making available clothing from the National Research Council. Together with the known anti-smoking and all tissues’ artisan technology that produces footwear based on fingerprint, come now cotton and wool-rich plasma. Everything on show at Fashion Week innovation and technology, still in progress today 6 December in Florence. Natural fabrics and simple, such as cotton and wool are enriched, thanks to researchers from the Institute for the Study of the macromolecules Cnr of Biella, in particular functional characteristics, with an eco-friendly technology such as plasma. “The cold plasma treatment with reactive radio frequency,” says George Mazzuchetti, director dell’Ismac-salts “is one of the most promising technologies for surface modification of textile materials and shows distinctive advantages over traditional techniques: low environmental impact, low energy consumption and process gas. It also offers the possibility to modify the outer surface of the material without altering the chemical and physical properties of the substrate.
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By ‘s use of plasma in woolen textiles industry, where many are focusing research efforts, has verified the improvement of various properties such as dyeability, hydrophilicity, antifeltrabilità, anti-pilling. “Our work”, continues the researcher dell’Ismac-CNR, “focuses on the latter. We are studying the plasma treatments that reduce the tendency to form pilling of knitted wool. The pilling is a physical process that can take place on the fabric surface and which leads to the formation of small balls called irregular fiber pills. It was shown that by depositing a silicone film of nanometer thickness on tissues through plasma (the fabric is inserted into a chamber where a vacuum is created, after which provides energy to the system via a radio frequency generator is injected into the chamber while an organic gas monomer), the treated tissue show a clear decrease in size and number, the degree of pilling compared to untreated. It was tested the strength of the silicone film deposed, washing and to rubbing, confirming a high degree of grafting of the polymer. Which makes the anti-pilling even after persistent stress conditions due to normal use of a leader.
Together with plasma tissue were exposed in the Week of fashion and technology innovation as “mini-factories” of the Institute of industrial technologies and automation for manufacturing high-tech shoes, achieved by machines that detect and process the image Digital foot, fit this pattern design, cut and assemble all components manufacturing, and the “smoke-free mesh” of the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Polymers, made with a natural fabric that can absorb odors including , nasty, smoke or kitchen.
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