Cotton fabric is a prevalent natural textile. The fibers in the cotton fabric are polymers made
of thousands of glucose residues linked by glycosidic bonds. Cotton fabric has good air …

Wool fibers with multifunctional properties are highly in demand for use in different
applications. The chemicals used to impart multifunctional properties to wool fibers are …

In this paper, we proposed to prepare a spiropyran (SP)-based photochromic cotton fabric
with high tri-stimulus response by thiol-ene click chemistry, which has excellent …

Wool, a naturally occurring biopolymer made up of amino acids, is employed as an
adsorbent for both modified and unmodified forms of the dyes rhodamine6G (R6G) and Cr …

In this study, multifunctional wool fabrics were produced by treating them with silver (Ag)
nanoparticles in a single-stage treatment using trisodium citrate (TSC) as a reducing and …

Energy has always been a vital component for all the activities in human life. The heating
and cooling load of the buildings is the major component and it depends on the efficiency of …

Silver/waterborne polyurethane-acrylate (Ag/WPUA) coating was firstly synthesized by a
novel and facile method of combining in-situ reduction and polymerization reactions. Cotton …

The recovery of uranium from seawater by adsorption is strategically important for the
sustainability of nuclear energy. However, marine biofouling reduces the adsorption …

Flame retardant and antibacterial applications of wool are attracting increasing scientific
attention. Herein, we report a facile method to deposit a zinc-based coating on the surfaces …

As a natural biomaterial with outstanding properties, keratin fibres hold promising potential
in many application fields. The reduction of disulphides in keratin to the corresponding thiols …