Fabric blends

Over the past 20 years no new commodity polymer has been developed. This is because of the advances in fabrication, blends (both miscible and non-miscible), fibre reinforcement, etc. Thus films with up to 11 different polymer layers have been developed. 

Effective on a wide range of cotton, rayon, nylon polyester and wool fabrics and fabric blends. 

INTEX SOFTENER 215 produces the slick hand generally associated with the high density grade polyethylenes. It has been found to produce on excellent hand on many fabric blends, particularly those containing substantial percentage of cellulosic fibers. 

Use Blended with cotton, for wash-and-wear fabrics blended with wool, for worsteds and suitings packaging films, recording tapes, soft-drink bottles. 

Quantitative determination of the percentage of fiber in a yarn/fabric blend (solubility test)... 

Most of the ASA produced is used for blending with a lower cost PVC resin by the end users. The fabricator blends powders of ASA and PVC... 

PET scrap suitable for glycolytic recycle includes production waste, fibers, film, flake, and bottles. In a practical system, major contaminants are separated from feedstocks, e.g., bottle waste is cleaned and separated from a polyethylene base, paper labels, metallic caps, and liners. For many end uses, colored PET must also be segregated. (Highly modified copolymers, glass-reinforced resin, fiber, or fabric blends are not suitable for glycolysis. These can only be recovered by methanolysis/hydrolysis.) Since reaction time depends on surface area, PET feedstocks must be reduced to relatively small particles by grinding, cutting, etc. 

Fabric blends of aramid fibers and flame resistant cellulosic fibers have been described. These fabric blends are popular for use in protective garments. These blends are more comfortable than fabrics made of aramid fibers alone. " ... 

F. Lapierre. Fabric blends of aramid fibers and flame resistant cellulosic fibers. US Patent 6576025, assigned to Difco Performance Fabrics, Inc. (North Charleston, SC), June 10,2003. 

For cellulose acetate-viscose or cotton fabric blends, cross-dyeing can be done, because cellulose acetate is unstained by many direct dyestuffs and because disperse dyes used for acetate do not dye viscose or cotton. Two-color and resist effects can be obtained on such blends from one dye-bath [37,77]. 

Foulk J, Chao W, Akin D, Dodd R, Layton P (2006) Analysis of flax and cotton fiber fabric blends and reeycled polyethylene composites. J Polym Environ 14(1) 15-25 Foulk J, Dodd R, McAlister D, Chun D, Akin D, Morrison H (2007) Flax-cotton fiber blends miniature spinning, gin processing, and dust potential. Ind Crops Prod 25(1) 8-16 Foulk J, Akin D, Dodd R (2008a) Processability of flax plants into functional bast fibers. Compos Interf 15(2-3) 147-168... 

Foulk JA et al (2006) Analysis of flax and cotton fiber fabric blends and recycled polyethylene composites. J Polym Environ 14(l) 15-25... 

Much effort has been devoted to tailor the interfadal properties in polymer blends because of their great practical importance and ubiquity. In order to fabricate blends with superior mechanical properties, a fine disp>ersion of the two components and mechanical strength of the interface between the coexisting domains are required. The mechanical strength of the interface is chiefly determined by the number of... 

Carbon-filled fibers Fabric blends with carbon or steel Fabrics coated with conducting polymers... 

These products are particularly effective detergents for synthetic fabrics and fabric blends at cool washing temperatures. Sulfates of the linear alcohol ethoxylates are used in home laundry and dishwasher formulations. 

J. Foulk, W. Chao, D. Akin, R. Dodd, and P. Layton, Analysis of Flax and Cotton Fiber Fabric Blends and Recycled Polyethylene Composites. J. of Polym. the Environ. 14 (1), 15-25 (2006). 

Uses Wetting agent, scouring agent for textile scouring, esp. for removing silicone oils from fabric blends containing lycra... 

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