Textile Department, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Textile Engineering Department, Functional Fibrous Structures & Environmental Enhancement (FFSEE), Amirkabir Nanotechnology Research Institute (ANTRI), Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2021 Feb 15;170:780-792. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.12.168. Epub 2020 Dec 29.
Starch is a benign bio-polymeric material with a diversity of desirable functionalities namely biocompatibility and hydrophilicity features. Besides, corn silk with cellulose-protein structure can be used as an available and clean compound for medical applications. Hence, the advantages of both mentioned biocompatible compounds with potentiality to form hydrogel are considered via their combination. Up to now, there is no report on dealing with starch beside corn silk on polyester fabric in the literatures. Herein, low starch/corn silk dual hydrogel was incorporated into nano ZnO functionalized polyester fabric via a one-step simple method. Imparting flame retardant feature with no dripping, antibacterial/antifungal and self-cleaning activities with the enhanced mechanical characteristics are the advantages of the stated approach in this paper. Presence of dual hydrogel on nano ZnO treated polyester fabric helps to significantly improve the cell viability to 129% because of hydrogel feature. Finally, this paper renders a feasible and clean approach for textile functionalization with respect to the both human health issues and environmental observations.
淀粉是一种良性的生物高分子材料，具有多种理想的功能，即生物相容性和亲水性。此外，具有纤维素-蛋白质结构的玉米丝可以作为一种可用的、清洁的化合物，用于医疗应用。因此，考虑到这两种具有形成水凝胶潜力的生物相容性化合物的优势，将它们结合在一起。到目前为止，文献中尚无关于在聚酯纤维上处理除玉米丝以外的淀粉的报道。在此，通过一步简单的方法，将低淀粉/玉米丝双重水凝胶掺入到纳米 ZnO 功能化的聚酯纤维中。本文所述方法的优点是赋予阻燃性能、不滴落、抗菌/抗真菌和自清洁性能，并提高了机械性能。双重水凝胶的存在有助于显著提高纳米 ZnO 处理后的聚酯纤维的细胞活力，达到 129%，这是水凝胶的特性所致。最后，本文提供了一种可行的、清洁的方法，用于对纺织品进行功能化处理，这既考虑到了人类健康问题，也考虑到了环境观察。
