Functionalisation of Textiles by Sol-Gel Coatings

For example, sol-gel immobilised bioactive liquids such as cineol, camphor, menthol, evening primrose and perilla oil used to functionalise textiles afford either skin-friendly textiles with antimicrobial and antiallergic effects due to immobilised natural oils or textiles for therapeutic treatment of the respiratory tract by means of immobilised mixtures of high volatility natural agents such as eucalyptol, camphor and menthol.27 

In another example, by depositing a continuous film of the nanosol based on long-chained alkylsilane additives onto the textile surface 

Arkles, Commercial applications of sol gel-derived hybrid materials, MRS Bull., 2001, May, 402. 

Palmisano, E. Le Bourhis, R. Ciriminna, D. Tranchida and M. Pagliaro, ORMOSIL thin films tuning the mechanical properties via a nanochemistry approach, Langmuir, 2006, 22, 11158. 

Kursawe, R. Anselmann, V. Hilarius and G. Pfaff, Nanoparticles by wet chemical procession in commercial applications, J. Sol-Gel Sci. Technol., 2005, 33, 71. 

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