TY - JOUR
T1 - Atmospheric pressure plasma treatment and breathability of polypropylene nonwoven fabric
AU - Jinka, Sudheer
AU - Behrens, Rachel
AU - Korzeniewski, Carol
AU - Singh, Vinitkumar
AU - Arunachalam, Appachi
AU - Parameswaran, Siva
AU - Coimbatore, Gopal
AU - Kendall, Ronald
AU - Wolf, Rory
AU - Ramkumar, Seshadri
N1 - Funding Information:
The funding support from The CH Foundation, Lubbock, TX, USA is greatly appreciated. Acknowledgements
PY - 2013/4
Y1 - 2013/4
N2 - Atmospheric pressure plasma treatment is a surface modification technique, which can be used for surface finishing and pretreatment of textiles using a broad range of reactive gases. In this study, atmospheric pressure plasma was created using a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen and was applied to polypropylene spunbond fabric. Physical properties like moisture vapor transport, pore size distribution and tensile strength were evaluated to understand the effect of the plasma treatment on spunbond polypropylene. Chemical composition of the fabric before and after plasma treatment was analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The spectra showed that oxygen and nitrogen containing groups were generated on the surface of the plasma-treated fabric. Scanning electron microscope was used to observe the surface morphology of the substrate. It is evident from the capillary flow porometer results, pore size increased after plasma treatment resulting in enhanced moisture vapor transport rate. No significant decrease in breaking load was observed after the plasma treatment.
AB - Atmospheric pressure plasma treatment is a surface modification technique, which can be used for surface finishing and pretreatment of textiles using a broad range of reactive gases. In this study, atmospheric pressure plasma was created using a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen and was applied to polypropylene spunbond fabric. Physical properties like moisture vapor transport, pore size distribution and tensile strength were evaluated to understand the effect of the plasma treatment on spunbond polypropylene. Chemical composition of the fabric before and after plasma treatment was analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The spectra showed that oxygen and nitrogen containing groups were generated on the surface of the plasma-treated fabric. Scanning electron microscope was used to observe the surface morphology of the substrate. It is evident from the capillary flow porometer results, pore size increased after plasma treatment resulting in enhanced moisture vapor transport rate. No significant decrease in breaking load was observed after the plasma treatment.
KW - Atmospheric pressure plasma treatment
KW - Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
KW - breathability
KW - polypropylene
KW - porosity
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U2 - 10.1177/1528083712464257
DO - 10.1177/1528083712464257
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84875354528
VL - 42
SP - 501
EP - 514
JO - Journal of Industrial Textiles
JF - Journal of Industrial Textiles
SN - 1528-0837
IS - 4
ER -