Comparison of Selected Properties of Eco-Friendly Soybean and Other Fibres

Abstract

Biodegradable and sustainable products are being employed to make contributions to efforts concerning environmental protection and the reduction of oil consumption. Biodegradable fibres present a simple and notable opportunity for providing sustainable textiles. Soybean fibre is a kind of regenerated and new-generation protein plant fibre. The present work aimed to analyse the many different properties of soybean fibres. Particularly it was focused on their performance, functional, comfort and dyeing properties. In literature, there are studies regarding soybean fibres but topics mostly involved the analysis of comfort properties of the fibre. In this study, fibre structure and composition, flame and UV resistance, strength, pilling behaviour, air and water vapour permeability, water absorption, drape and dyeing properties were studied. It was indicated that soybean fibre is capable of meeting the performance, comfort and functional requirements of classical and technical textile products. The fibre has many of the good qualities of natural fibres such as tenacity, moisture regain, soft-lustrous handle, dyeability and colour fastness properties, and also has some of the functional properties of synthetic fibres such as being flame retardant and anti-ultraviolet.

Soybean: For Textile Applications and Its Printing

“…The amino acids of soybean protein fiber could activate the collagen protein in the human skin, resist tickling and evaporate the skin [25]. Moreover, ultraviolet radiation absorption performance is better than that of cotton, viscose and silk fibers and can reach up to 99.7% [1,22,25].…”

“…After all, soybean protein fiber can satisfy the performance, comfort and functional demands of conventional and technical textile goods [22]. Therefore, soybean protein fiber has many various end-use application areas in the textile industry such as nonwovens, infant clothes, apparel, t-shirt, skirt, bed linen, undergarments, sleepwear, sportswear, bed sheets, towels, blankets, etc.…”

“…There are quite few studies about the coloration, limited to dyeing process, of soybean fibers in the literature, which are dyeing with 1:2 metal-complex, acid, direct, reactive dyes and natural dyes [22,[29][30][31][32][33][34]. Choi et al [29] investigated the performance of three acid dyes and some reactive dyes containing different reactive groups on soybean protein fiber in terms of exhaustion, fixation and build-up.…”

“…Liquefied soybean protein is extruded from soybean after the extraction of soybean oil and mechanically processed to manufacture soybean protein fiber by utilizing new bioengineering technology [2,22]. The manufacturers of soybean protein fiber declared that the soybean fiber production is ecofriendly and does not impart any damage to atmosphere, environment, human body and water [9,18].…”

Wearable piezoelectric device assembled by one-step continuous electrospinning

“…Even so, the permeability of electrode membrane is compare to some wearable fabrics, such as cotton and PET texture, especially is several times higher than leather materials. [28][29][30][31] Thus, the good air permeability of PVDF-rGO electrode membrane and PVDF nanofiber membrane ensures breathable feature of fabricated piezoelectric membrane device.…”