Self-Cleaning Cotton Obtained after Grafting Thermoresponsive Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) through Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
2.2. SI-ATRP Initiator Immobilization on Cotton Fabric
2.3. Fabrication of PNVCL-Grafted Cotton Fabric through SI-ATRP
2.4. Surface Characterization
2.5. Thermoresponsive Behavior of Polymer-Grafted Cotton Fabrics
2.6. Self-Cleaning PNVCL-Grafted Cotton Fabric
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Grafting the Thermoresponsive Polymer onto Cotton Fabric through SI-ATRP
3.2. Polymerization Kinetics
3.3. Surface Characterization of Thermoresponsive Polymer-Grafted Fabric
3.4. Surface Wettability of Initiator- and Polymer-Grafted Fabrics
3.5. Reversibility of the Wettability Transition of the Thermoresponsive Polymer-Grafted Fabric
3.6. Self-Cleaning of the PNVCL-Grafted Cotton Fabric
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Gautam, B.; Yu, H.-h. Self-Cleaning Cotton Obtained after Grafting Thermoresponsive Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) through Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Polymers 2020, 12, 2920. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12122920
Gautam B, Yu H-h. Self-Cleaning Cotton Obtained after Grafting Thermoresponsive Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) through Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. Polymers. 2020; 12(12):2920. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12122920
Chicago/Turabian StyleGautam, Bhaskarchand, and Hsiao-hua Yu. 2020. "Self-Cleaning Cotton Obtained after Grafting Thermoresponsive Poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) through Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization" Polymers 12, no. 12: 2920. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym12122920