Tehran ( SANATNAMA ) - The quality of cotton has to develop from farm level to industry focusing its effort on yield & quality aspect.
A team of international scientists from Israel, Germany and Austria has used a biological approach to impart functionality to cotton. They combined two molecules, one that plants carry of its cell and other that causes fluorescence. In this way, cloths can be used thousands of years & glows under a fluorescent light.
Figure 1: Cotton changes its color under fluorescent light.
External biological molecules that contain glucose moieties enable cotton to be magnetic. Besides, the incorporation of exogenous molecules enables fibers to have functionalities that are durable.
Figure 2: Using sugar molecules as the cotton can be glowed
Wash ability, durability and wear abilityare some of the challenges faced by the smart textiles sector. The exploitation of biological methods will give new opportunities for natural fibers to penetrate in to technical textiles sector.
The author expected that the method also be used to other fibers such as flax and bamboo.
It would be really useful for the cotton industry, if the procedure can be used from field to industry level because fiber coating are suffering from function loss during wear.
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