Medical textiles surface treatment applications

The use of polypropylene in textiles is steadily becoming more prevalent due to its lower cost basis. Polypropylene is commonly used in the fabrication of textile (nonwoven) filters for medical applications. In its native state, polypropylene nonwoven filtration media can only wet-out with liquids which possess surface tensions less than 32 mN/m. As such, water filtration requires high pressure to pass through the membrane. The use of an oxidative atmospheric pressure plasma treatment significantly increases fiber surface hydrophilicity and therefore filtra-... 

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