Antiviral Finishing with Echozan Based Chemical On Ready for Dyed Fabrics in Medical Textiles

Abstract

In conjunction with an increasing public awareness of infectious diseases, the textile industries are developing hygienic fabrics by the addition of various antiviral compounds. In the current study, ECHOZAN-bk is applied to cotton fabrics (Ready for Dyed) in order to gain antiviral properties. The fabric samples are processed in two methods, those are Boiling - off method and then Padding Method. The Boiling – off method is done at three concentrations as 40°c, 50°c and 60°c at the time of 10 minutes. Then, the padding methods are done at sudden padding, at the time interval of 5 minutes and also the time interval of 10 minutes. The overall idea was to notice that the effect of fabric on finishing agent by various concentrations and time. We are planned to make the test in both padding method and boiling off method, and to test the Morphological test (SEM Analysis, FTIR Analysis) and to find the variations of the concerned samples. According to the test results, the modified textile goods attained very good antiviral properties. Thus, the results of the present study clearly suggest that every tested samples were well settled with the concerned chemical and among the variance results, the samples of 40 °c (Boiling- Off method) and then the sudden treatment of padding (Padding method) provides good fixation of the chemicals and yields parallel smoothening of the fabric. In the treatment of higher time and temperature the Echozan-bk starts to evaporate and the results are not upto the expected level. Thus, the results of the present study clearly suggest that ECHOZAN treated textiles at moderate time and temperature can be considered in the development of antiviral textile finishes.