Photochromic wool fabrics from a hybrid silica coating

Photochromic wool fabrics from a hybrid silica coating

Cheng, Tong, Lin, Tong, Fang, Jian and Brady, Rex 2007, Photochromic wool fabrics from a hybrid silica coating, Textile research journal, vol. 77, no. 12, pp. 923-928.

Title	Photochromic wool fabrics from a hybrid silica coating
Author(s)	Cheng, Tong Lin, Tong Fang, Jian Brady, Rex
Journal name	Textile research journal
Volume number	77
Issue number	12
Start page	923
End page	928
Publisher	Sage Science Press (UK)
Place of publication	London, England
Publication date	2007
ISSN	0040-5175
Keyword(s)	photochromic wool fabrics sol-gel technology surface coating
Summary	In this work, a photochromic wool fabric has been prepared by applying a photochromic-dye hybrid silica sol-gel onto the surface of fabric. The photochromic fabric was found to have a very quick optical response. Two types of silica were used as the matrix material, and the type of silica had a small effect only on the photochromic performance, the fabric washing fastness, and water contact angle, but affected the fabric handle property considerably. The silica from a precursor containing a long alkyl chain showed very little influence on the fabric handle and better photochromic performance than that containing a phenyl group.
Language	eng
Field of Research	091012 Textile Technology
HERDC Research category	C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice	©2007, SAGE Publications
Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007430

Document type:	Journal Article
Collection:	Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation

Citation counts:	Cited 12 times in TR Web of Science Cited 7 times in Scopus
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