Variation of cotton properties due to the application of sea fragance microcapsules

Abstract

 Cotton fabrics are used in multiple applications consequently, 
are susceptible to treatments for its functionalization. 
Microcapsules interest is increasing among the industry field 
as they allow to incorporate multiple functions to textiles. 
The finishing treatments that incorporate microcapsules 
contain in their formulations binding agents in order to 
increase their permanence on the textile. In this work, different 
concentrations of resin are tested in order to evaluate weather 
its application on industrial formulations with microcapsules 
influences the flexural rigidity on the cotton fabric.
Considering that the application of the microcapsules is carried 
out in the final phase of the textile proces, it can modify the 
fabric appearenace. The possible color modification that is 
generated on three colors, red, yellow and blue at 2% on fiber 
weight has also been evaluated.
The study shows that not only the resin influences the flexural 
rigidity of the tissue, but the presence of microcapsules also 
modifies this behavior. In addition, it is proven that the color 
variation is not significant to detect a perceptible change 
in tissue coloration. Flexural rigidity modification can be 
obsereved previusly to observe changes in color.