Fabrication of superhydrophobic cotton fabrics by silica hydrosol and hydrophobization

Review on hygroscopic aging of cellulose fibres and their biocomposites

“…Sol-gel process is a wet process that is broadly employed in the textile field using a simple pad or dip coating (Ding et al, 2006;Landage, Kulkarni, & Ubarhande, 2012;Rao, Latthe, Mahadik, & Kappenstein, 2011;Xu, Zhuang, Xu, & Cai, 2011). Nano sol-gel method has been applied for preparing self-cleaning, antibacterial and water repellent finishes on fabrics (Gurav et al, 2014;Mahadik et al, 2013;Teisala et al, 2010;Verho et al, 2011).…”

A sol–bath–gel approach to prepare hybrid coating for corrosion protection of aluminum alloy

“…The interaction and condensation of the hydrolyzed species during the sol-forming process resulted in the creation of silicon-oxygen-silicon bonds and producing water by attacking a nucleophilic deprotonated silanol on a protonated silanol or on an ethoxysilane group [25,[50][51][52].…”

Preparation of highly hydrophobic cotton fabrics by modification with bifunctional silsesquioxanes in the sol-gel process

“…Different techniques of producing rough surfaces were developed by the imitation of nature (biomimetics) [3,4], however, most of them cannot be recreated in the textile production. Only the introduction of nanotechnology processes, such as electrospinning [5], plasma treatment [6][7][8] and sol-gel technology [9][10][11][12][13][14][15] have enabled breakthroughs in the creation of superhydrophobic and self-cleaning textiles. Cotton fabrics inherently have a microscale rough surface coming from their textural structure.…”