An article. The article includes a nonwoven having a pH value from 2 to 6; wherein the article is a wound dressing.

A system for treating a substrate comprising a treatment module and a substrate plane. The substrate extending along a substrate plane to treat the substrate and wherein a fluid is deliverable via the module to a local region between the module and the substrate plane to treat the substrate with a predetermined treatment.

A process and system are provided for introducing a blend of chopped and dispersed fibers on an automated production line amenable for inclusion in molding compositions as a blended fiber mat for structural applications. The blend of fibers are simultaneously supplied to an automated cutting machine illustratively including a rotary blade chopper disposed above a vortex supporting chamber. The blend of chopped fibers and binder form a chopped mat. The chopped mat has a veil mat placed on either side, and is consolidated with the veil mat using heated rollers maintained at the softening temperature of thermoplastic binder, with consolidated mats being amenable to being stored in rolls or as flat sheets. A charge pattern is made using the consolidated mat, and the charge pattern can be compression molded in a mold maintained at a temperature lower than the melting point of the thermoplastic fibers.

The invention relates to the textile industry, and specifically to methods for processing bast-fiber materials, for instance the fiber of flax, hemp, jute, nettle, kenaf, and others. The technical result which the present invention aims to achieve consists in: enhancing the quality of a cottonized fiber, when processing bast-fiber materials, by means of high-voltage electric pulse discharges following preliminary biochemical and final minimal mechanical processing; and in enhancing the physical/mechanical and spinning properties thereof, which, overall, allows for an optimized, efficient production process. Said technical result is achieved in that a bast-fiber material processing method includes a technological sequence of processes involving feeding raw material into a bale breaker, which is provided with a decompactor, and into a dosing system, processing using high-voltage electric pulse discharges, rinsing with emulsifying reagents, washing and press-drying in a drum-type installation, decompacting, final drying and light decompacting; the raw material is biochemically treated prior to being fed into high-voltage electric pulse discharge chambers.

A fabric suitable as an alcohol repellent fabric is provided. The fabric includes a fibrous substrate including a first outermost surface and a second outermost surface, in which a digitally printed or sprayed alcohol repellent composition is located on at least a portion the first outermost surface, at least a portion of the second outermost surface, or both. The fabric also includes an antistatic composition located on at least a portion the first outermost surface, at least a portion of the second outermost surface, or both.

Provided is a method for preparing a carbon nanotube/polymer composite material, including: coating a nano-silicon oxide film on the surface of a porous polymer by vacuum coating; depositing a metal catalyst nano-film on the nano-silicon oxide film by vacuum sputtering; growing a carbon nanotube array in situ on the surface of the porous polymer by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition to obtain a carbon nanotube/polymer porous material; and impregnating the carbon nanotube/polymer porous material with a polymer and curing to obtain the carbon nanotube/polymer composite material. By using a heat-resistant polymer having a high heat-resistant temperature and a PECVD technique, a carbon nanotube array directly grows in situ on the surface of a polymer at a low temperature, which thereby overcomes the defects of the composites previously prepared, in which carbon nanotubes are difficult to be homogeneously dispersed and the interfacial bonding force in the composites is weak.

Electret webs include a thermoplastic resin and a charge-enhancing additive. The charge-enhancing additive is a substituted-benzoic acid or a substituted-benzoate salt. The benzoic acid and benzoate salts are substituted by a hydroxyl or amino group at the ortho position or 1 position of the benzene ring. The benzene ring may contain additional substituent groups. The substituted-benzoate salt may have a monovalent, divalent, or trivalent metal counteraction.

Disclosed are a hydrophobic and oleophobic coating, a preparation method therefor and a product, wherein the hydrophobic and oleophobic coating is formed by the deposition of a perfluoropolyether or perfluoropolyether derivative on the surface of a substrate by means of PECVD, such that the hydrophobic and oleophobic properties of the surface of the substrate are improved by the perfluoropolyether or perfluoropolyether derivative coating. Further disclosed are a hydrophobic and oleophobic coating, a preparation method therefor and a product, wherein the hydrophobic and oleophobic coating comprises: at least a two-layer structure, one of the layers being formed by the plasma chemical vapor deposition of one or more perfluoropolyethers or perfluoropolyether derivatives as raw materials, and the other layer being formed by the plasma chemical vapor deposition of a silane- or siloxane-containing raw material, thereby improving the hydrophobic and oleophobic properties of the surface of a substrate.

This disclosure relates generally to the preparation of eco-friendly engineered fabric, and more particularly to terry fabric and variations thereof. In one embodiment, a terry fabric is comprised of a soluble fiber blend, blended with cotton fibers, where the soluble fibers are dissolved in a caustic or enzyme solution to create highly porous yarns.

Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for coating a fiber material with manganese oxide. For example, a method may include: applying a manganese oxide precipitate to the fiber material; drying the manganese oxide precipitate; and oxidizing the manganese oxide precipitate using an oxygen plasma at a temperature below 200° C. forming a manganese(IV) oxide layer having at least 70% by weight with respect to the manganese oxide precipitate.