As a luxurious textile for more than five thousand years, silk fibers/products have always been favored by consumers and the markets, but the poor photostability seriously hinders its utilization in fashionable apparel. Even if enduing the functionality of silk fiber through surface modification, it is often at the expense of its comfort. Here, an ultra-thin amorphous titanium dioxide nano-film with a thickness of only five in a thousand of fiber diameter and the add-on percentage ≤ 5.33% was prepared on the surface of silk fibers/fabrics by atomic layer deposition (ALD) methods. The tensile strength of the modified silk fiber maintains 89.17% of the original fiber after exposure to UV light for 672 h. They can also withstand multi-cycle laundering and accelerate light-aging, which exhibiting an excellent UV resistance. Most importantly, the functional coating has a negligible impact on the comfortable and wearability performance of silk fibers/fabrics. In addition, ALD-coated silk fabric is also further used as an outdoor reflective cooling material and achieving a superior thermal insulation effect with the temperature reduction up to 10.1 °C.
Directional water transport in garment materials plays a pivotal role in maintaining human thermal and wet comfort. In the present work, a new type of multilayer fibrous mat with the specific function of directional water transport was prepared via the combination of melt-electrospinning and solution-electrospinning. The polypropylene (PP) fibrous layer prepared by melt-electrospinning technology was located in the inner layer (next to the skin), while the polyacrylonitrile-containing hydrophilic nano-silica particles (PAN-SiO2) layer with remarkable hydrophilicity was located in the outer layer, which could effectively transport water to the outer surface of the composites. Treatment of the as-prepared PAN-SiO2/PP with an alkaline aqueous solution of dopamine not only increased the wettability of the PP layer, but also further improved the hydrophilicity of PAN-SiO2. A layer of cotton woven mesh was added between the TPP layer and TPAN-SiO2 to form a sandwich structure in order to accelerate water transport in the bilayered fibrous mats. The directional water transport, mechanical flexibility, and permeability of the prepared multilayered superfine fibrous mat were characterized systematically. The experimental results exhibited that TPAN-SiO2/cotton mesh/TPP exhibited an excellent accumulative one-way transport index (AOTI, 1071%), remarkable overall moisture management capacity (OMMC, 0.88), and reasonably high water vapor transport rate (WVT, 11.6 kg d−1 m−2), indicating it is a promising candidate for the development of novel textile materials for use in the field of sportswear for fast sweat release applications.
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