A novel sol-gel multi-layer approach for cotton fabric finishing by tetraethoxysilane precursor

Materials engineering for surface-confined flame retardancy

“…Indeed, in comparison with other smooth substrates like glass or polymeric films, the presence of a texture in the fabric can affect the kinetics of silica formation, and thus determine the resulting performances of the deposited coating. Analogously, Colleoni et al [210] have found that the presence of DBTA favours the coating formation, and as a consequence a higher thermal stability of fabrics treated by sol-gel if compared with the untreated cotton.…”

Review on hygroscopic aging of cellulose fibres and their biocomposites

“…Sol-gel process is a chemical method used to synthesize typical metal oxides from a precursor (chemical solution) to form an integrated network of either discrete particle. The method has been used to produce superhydrophobic surfaces from a variety of alkylsilane precursors such as; tetraethyl orthosilicate or tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) (Colleoni et al, 2013;Ding et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2011), methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) , tetraethylorthotitanate or tetraethyl titanate (Alongi, Ciobanu, & Malucelli, 2012), tetrabutyl titanate (TBT) (Chen et al, 2011), methyltriethoxysilane (METES) (Chen et al, 2011;Rao et al, 2011) and tetramethoxysilane (TMOS) (Alongi et al, 2012). The sol-gel process involves the generation of organic-inorganic hybrid materials through hydrolysis and condensation reactions of organometallic compounds.…”

Flame Retardant Finishing for Textiles

“…Recently the sol-gel processes have been exploited in textile field for conferring multifunctional properties [47]; in particular, great attention has been devoted to the development of "smart" textiles exhibiting antimicrobial or UV radiation protection [48], dye fastness [49], anti-wrinkle finishing [50], hydrophobicity [51], biomolecule immobilization [52], photocatalytic properties [53] and sensor characteristics [54,55].…”