title: Characterization of cellulosic fibers and fabrics by sorption/desorption.
abstract: Three cellulosic substrates: lyocell (CLY), viscose (CV), and modal (CMD) in the form of fibers and fabrics were subjected to wet/dry or wash/dry treatments. The accessibility of untreated and treated substrates to water and iodine was investigated using dynamic water-vapor sorption, moisture retention, and iodine sorption methods, to study the influence of treatments on sorption-desorption hysteresis, fraction of moisture sorbed as a monomolecular layer, water retention, and iodine sorption. It was found that the sorption properties of untreated and treated substrates differed with sorbate type as well as substrate type and form.
authors.affiliation: Christian Doppler Laboratory for Textile and Fibre Chemistry in Cellulosics, Research Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics, Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck, Dornbirn, Austria.
authors.forename: Barbora
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Siroka
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Noisternig
authors.forename: Ulrich J
authors.initials: UJ
authors.lastname: Griesser
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bechtold
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D002482:Cellulose / Q000737:chemistry*; D013784:Textiles / Q000032:analysis*; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D002482:Cellulose