A ventilation insert for textiles, with at least one layer, covered at least partially by an absorption material and having ventilation openings, the openings being at least partially closeable via a liquid by swelling of the absorption material, obtainable by: a) treating a layer having ventilation openings with a mixture, containing a wetting agent, initiator, polymerizable monomer or oligomers, and a cross-linking agent, as a preliminary stage for the absorption material; and b) polymerizing the monomer or oligomer to form the absorption material while forming a bonded connection between the absorption material and the layer. The ventilation insert has a relatively low thickness, a low weight per unit area, and high flexibility permanently and independently of moisture after economical production, via one layer, self-sealingly closing ventilation openings, and containing the absorption material. The absorption material is connected to the layer by bonding, at least in some regions.

Use for sizing textile materials with an aqueous sizing composition including at least one co-polymer obtained by the polymerization of at least one non-ionic monomer and/or one anionic monomer, and at least one monomer of formula (I): ##STR00001##
in which: R.sub.1 is an atom of hydrogen or a methyl radical; x=0 or 1; Z is a divalent grouping C(O)O, C(O)NH, or CH.sub.2; n is an integer between 1 and 250; R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or a carbonated radicalsaturated or unsaturated, possibly aromatic, linear, ramified or cyclicincluding from 1 to 30 carbon atoms and from 0 to 4 hetero-atoms chosen from the group including O, N and S.

Use for sizing textile materials with an aqueous sizing composition including at least one co-polymer obtained by the polymerization of at least one non-ionic monomer and/or one anionic monomer, and at least one monomer of formula (I): ##STR00001##
in which: R.sub.1 is an atom of hydrogen or a methyl radical; x=0 or 1; Z is a divalent grouping C(O)O, C(O)NH, or CH.sub.2; n is an integer between 1 and 250; R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom or a carbonated radicalsaturated or unsaturated, possibly aromatic, linear, ramified or cyclicincluding from 1 to 30 carbon atoms and from 0 to 4 hetero-atoms chosen from the group including O, N and S.

Fibers with crystallization seeds attached to its surface, method of making such composite fibers by surface treatment of fibers followed by either treating such fibers with premade crystallization seeds or by precipitation and direct crystallization of seeds onto pretreated fibers. Controlling and tuning the properties of inorganic binder compositions with fiber-bound crystallization seeds and thereby generating inorganic binder compositions with tailor-made characteristics.

Fibers with crystallization seeds attached to its surface, method of making such composite fibers by surface treatment of fibers followed by either treating such fibers with premade crystallization seeds or by precipitation and direct crystallization of seeds onto pretreated fibers. Controlling and tuning the properties of inorganic binder compositions with fiber-bound crystallization seeds and thereby generating inorganic binder compositions with tailor-made characteristics.

One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to aqueous solutions that can be used to make substrates such as an article that can inhibit or limit one or more sources of odor. In an aspect, the aqueous solution can include one or more components, where one of the components is an inhibiting agent that can function to inhibit or limit the sources of odor in an article such as a textile.

One or more aspects of the present disclosure are directed to aqueous solutions that can be used to make substrates such as an article that can inhibit or limit one or more sources of odor. In an aspect, the aqueous solution can include one or more components, where one of the components is an inhibiting agent that can function to inhibit or limit the sources of odor in an article such as a textile.

An aqueous dispersion of a fluorine-containing copolymer comprising, as copolymerization units, (A) a (meth)acrylate represented by [CH.sub.2CHRCOO(NH).sub.rR.sub.1NR.sub.2R.sub.3R.sub.4].sup.+Y.sup., (B) a perfluoroalkylalkyl(meth)acrylate represented by C.sub.mF.sub.2m+1C.sub.pH.sub.2p(NRSO.sub.2).sub.qOCOCRCH.sub.2 or a polyfluoroalkylalkyl(meth)acrylate thereof, or a polyfluoroalkyl(meth)acrylate represented by C.sub.nF.sub.2n+1(CH.sub.2CF.sub.2).sub.a(CF.sub.2CF.sub.2).sub.b(CH.sub.2CH.sub.2).sub.cOCOCRCH.sub.2, (C) benzyl(meth)acrylate, (D) a fluorine-free polymerizable monomer other than components (A) and (C), and (E) a crosslinkable group-containing polymerizable monomer. The aqueous dispersion can improve the dispersion stability of an aqueous dispersion of a water- and oil-repellent when used as a water- and oil-repellent comprising the fluorine-containing copolymer as an active component.

A temperature regulating article comprises a substrate and a polymeric phase change material bound to the substrate, wherein the polymeric phase change material is characterized by including a precisely branched polymer with substantially equally spaced repeating sidechains. In other embodiments the polymeric phase change material includes between 20 and 200 branches per 1000 carbon units, has a latent heat of at least 5 Joules per gram, and a transition temperature between 0 C. and 40 C.

A temperature regulating article comprises a substrate and a polymeric phase change material bound to the substrate, wherein the polymeric phase change material is characterized by including a precisely branched polymer with substantially equally spaced repeating sidechains. In other embodiments the polymeric phase change material includes between 20 and 200 branches per 1000 carbon units, has a latent heat of at least 5 Joules per gram, and a transition temperature between 0 C. and 40 C.