Application of plasma technology in textile

摘要

Growing demands on the functionality of technical textiles as well as on the environmental friendliness of finishing processes increase the interest in physically induced techniques for surface modification and coating of textiles. In general, after the application of water-based finishing systems, the textile needs to be dried. The removing of water is energy intensive and therefore expensive. In contrast to conventional wet finishing processes, a plasma treatment is a dry process. The textile stays dry and, accordingly, drying processes can be avoided and no waste water occurs. Plasma treatments represent, therefore, energy efficient and economic alternatives to classical textile finishing processes. Within plasma processes, a high reactive gaseous phase interacts with the surface of a substrate. In principle, all polymeric and natural fibres can be plasma treated.