Coatings textile functionalisation

The maintenance and improvement of current properties and the creation of new material properties are the important reasons for the functionalisation of textiles with sol-gel organosilica coatings with particle diameters smaller than 50 nm (nanosols).25 Coating with nanosols enables the manifold alteration of their physico-mechanical, optical, electrical and biological properties of a textile surface (Figure 4.28). 

Mahltig, B. Haufe, H. Bottcher, H., Functionalisation of textiles by inorganic sol-gel coatings. Journal of Materials Chemistry 2005, 15, 4385-4398... 

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