Effect of Reactive Dyeing on Fabrics Modification with Silver Nanowires (AgNWs)

Dorota Puchowicz; Alicja Nejman; Irena Kamińska; Małgorzata Cieślak

doi:10.1021/acsomega.1c03004

Effect of Reactive Dyeing on Fabrics Modification with Silver Nanowires (AgNWs)

ACS Omega. 2021 Sep 28;6(40):26077-26085. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03004. eCollection 2021 Oct 12.

Authors

Dorota Puchowicz¹, Alicja Nejman¹, Irena Kamińska¹, Małgorzata Cieślak¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemical Textile Technologies, ŁUKASIEWICZ Research Network-Textile Research Institute, Brzezińska 5/15, 92-103 Łódź, Poland.

Abstract

This paper presents the characterization of cotton and wool fabrics modified by silver nanowires (AgNWs). The effect of reactive dyeing of wool and cotton fabrics on their modification with AgNWs was analyzed. Both fabrics were dyed using reactive dyes (yellow, red, blue) at four color intensities (0.5, 1, 2, and 5%). Dyed fabrics were characterized by the determined Kubelka-Munk's coefficient (K/S) ratio and vibrational spectra (Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman). Analysis of the amount of AgNWs applied on cotton and wool fabrics indicates that the presence of dye affects the surface modification with AgNWs depending on the type of fibers. While for cotton no significant differences were noted in relation to the color intensity, in the case of wool, the higher the dye contents, the more nanowires were deposited on the surface. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) effect accompanying AgNW modification was also observed on wool, similar to the previous study on cotton.