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Preferential face coating of knitted PET fabrics via UV curing for water- and oil-repellent finish  

Jeong, Yong-Kyun (School of Advanced Materials and System Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
Jeong, Yongjin (School of Textile Engineering, Soongsil University)
Jang, Jinho (School of Advanced Materials and System Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology)
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Textile Coloration and Finishing / v.17, no.6, 2005 , pp. 27-35 More about this Journal
Abstract
Conventional pad- dry-cure(thermo-fixation) process usually produces functional performance on both sides of a fabric. UV curing technique was applied to impart water- and oil-repellent finish effective only on the face of a PET knitted fabric. The preferential one-side coating, by virtue of the limited penetration of UV light, was achieved by W curing after padding of a fluorocarbon agent without special coating or printing equipments. The difference in the functional property of face and back sides was examined by measuring water and oil repellency at each side of the treated fabric. The influence of pre/post-irradiation dose and agent concentration on the performance of the finished fabrics were investigated. While increase in both resin concentration and post-irradiation did not have significant effect on the finish, UV pre-irradiation of PET fabrics caused remarkable influence presumably due to appropriate surface modification of PET fabrics required for facile wetting of the resin. The dimensional stability and color change of the UV cured fabrics measured by FAST and reflectance spectrophotometry showed significantly decreased color difference and increased percent extension compared with the samples pre-irradiated without agent application.
Keywords
water and oil repellent finish; UV curing; PET; UV dose; pre-irradiation;
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