title: Laundering durability of photocatalyzed self-cleaning cotton fabric with TiO₂ nanoparticles covalently immobilized.
abstract: Photocatalyzed self-cleaning cotton fabrics with TiO2 nanoparticles covalently immobilized are obtained by cograft polymerization of 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) together with the surface functionalized TiO2 nanoparticles under γ-ray irradiation. The covalent bonds between the TiO2 nanoparticles and cotton fabrics bridged by poly(2-hydroxyethyl acrylate) (PHEA) graft chains is strong enough to survive 30 accelerated laundering circles, equivalent to 150 commercial or domestic launderings.
authors.affiliation: TMSR Research Center and CAS Key Lab of Nuclear Radiation and Nuclear Energy Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Ziqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Hanzhou
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Siyuan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Jingxia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Haiqing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jianyong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Linfan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jingye
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D032561:Cotton Fiber; D007846:Laundering; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D058105:Polymerization; D013696:Temperature; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: C009495:titanium dioxide; D014025:Titanium