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Improving thermal conductivity of cotton fabrics using composite coatings containing graphene, multiwall carbon nanotube or boron nitride fine particles
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posted on 2013-10-01, 00:00 authored by Amir Abbas, Yan Zhao, J Zhou, Xungai Wang, Tong LinGraphene, multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) and fine boron nitride (BN) particles were separately applied with a resin onto a cotton fabric, and the effect of the thin composite coatings on the thermal conductive property, air permeability, wettability and color appearance of the cotton fabric was examined. The existence of the fillers within the coating layer increased the thermal conductivity of the coated cotton fabric. At the same coating content, the increase in fabric thermal conductivity was in the order of graphene > BN > MWCNT, ranging from 132 % to 842 % (based on pure cotton fabric). The coating led to 73 %, 69 % and 64 % reduction in air permeability when it respectively contained 50.0 wt% graphene, BN and MWCNTs. The graphene and MWCNT treated fabrics had a black appearance, but the coating had almost no influence on the fabric hydrophilicity. The BN coating made cotton fabric surface hydrophobic, with little change in fabric color.
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Fibers and polymersVolume
14Issue
10Pagination
1641 - 1649Publisher
Korean Fibre SocietyLocation
Seoul, KoreaPublisher DOI
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1229-9197eISSN
1875-0052Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2013, Korean Fibre SocietyUsage metrics
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