Wool fiber plasma treated

Carbon Is Electron Line Parameters Spectra From Plasma Treated Wool Fiber... 

Research on plasma treatment on wool fiber as a pretreatment was started in 1956 (Rakowski, 1997). Plasma-treated wool fiber displays improved antifelting property, dye-ability, and surface wettability. The plasma treatment can alter the surface morphology and chemical composition, but the effect depends greatly on the plasma gas used, system pressure, discharge power, and also treatment lime. Plasma treatment on wool fiber is a dry process in which fiber alteralion is concentrated on the fiber surface and less damage is caused to the bulk fiber. This is a major advantage of plasma treatment on wool fiber. 

Table 3.3 shows that plasma-treated wool can have a greater reduction in DFE than wool treated with chemicals. This reduction in DFE implies that the felting tendency of wool is lower. In addition, the value of the density (D) of the felt baU is an inverse measure of the degree of felting. It is observed that untreated wool fiber has the greatest D values whereas the plasma-treated wool shows the greatest reduction in D among oxidized, reduced, and polymer deposited wool. 

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Mori, M., Inagaki, N., 2006. Relationship between anti-felting properties and physicochemical properties of wool fibers treated with Ar-plasma. Text. Res. J. 79, 687-694. 

Chen J R (1996), Study on free radicals of cotton and wool fibers treated with low-temperature plasma ,/oamfl/ of Applied Polymer Science, 62,1325-1329. 

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