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Article Name :
AN ECO-FRIENDLY HERBAL ANTIFUNGAL FINISH ON COTTON KNITTED FABRIC USING NEEM LEAVES EXTRACT.
Author Name :
Shweta Sharma,Himadri Ghosh
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ROR-1766
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Abstract :
The existence of Microorganism in nature and their damaging effect like deterioration and odor are some of the challenging situations for the woven, nonwoven, knitted and composite fabric industries. For the human being to work at their maximum level health and hygiene is the basic thing. Mostly chemicals are being used to make the fabric antifungal which is very harmful to the human body and environment. In order to give antifungal finish to the textiles an eco-friendly natural antifungal finish has been prepared from the plant extract for textile application. Neem leaves extract have been applied to the cotton knitted fabric by the padding mangle so that even application of the finish can be applied. In the present study Neem leaves extract coated on cotton knitted fabric was found to be effective as antifungal finishing for textiles. The Neem leaves extract efficiently used as antifungal agent for the preparation of antifungal textile finish particularly for medical textiles. This study investigated that antifungal functionality of cotton knitted fabric coated with Neem leaves extract as value added textiles product..
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