Average advancing and receding contact angles made against cotton and glass fibers by a
set of probe liquids are determined using the Wilhelmy technique. The dispersive and polar …

Different treatment processes such as alkaline washing, bleaching, and slack-mercer ization
are used to improve the sorption characteristics of cellulose fibers. The differences between …

Contact angle data from various sources in conjunction with the Israelachvili and Gee
equation derived for chemically heterogeneous surfaces are used to describe the wool fiber …

Surface wetting behaviors of cotton and two rayons, one a regular crenulated and the other
a trilobal (Galaxy), all stripped of topically applied finish, are determined using a sensitive …

A method for the determination of the surface tension γ S of cellulosic fibres has been
developed. A number of fibres are placed on a liquid surface with a surface tension γ L. The …

A simple apparatus and technique are described for measuring contact angles of liquids on
small-denier fibers. This technique is based on the level-surface method and can be used to …

The thin-layer wicking technique was used to determine the surface free energy components
and the surface character of three celluloses (Sigmaccll 101, Sigmacell 20, and Avicel 101) …

Knowledge of the perimeter of a fibre is of fundamental importance, for the perimeter is not
only an identifying characteristic but is involved in the behaviour of the fibre singly and in …

Contact angles of various liquids on wool fibers are measured using the liquid droplet
method. A computational technique greatly simplifies contact angle calculations. Sur face …

Some of the limitations inherent in the use of directly measured contact angles for. the
determination of filament wetta bility are discussed, and an alternate approach based on the …