Multifunctional leather finishing vs. applications, through the addition of well-dispersed flower-like nanoparticles.

ABSTRACT: In the present paper, multifunctional flower-like nanoparticles were synthesized to be used in the leather finishing. They are capable of conferring simultaneously and synergistic antimicrobial, self-cleaning, light resistance, hydrophobic, mechanical, thermal, and fluorescent properties due to the presence of Ag, TiO₂, and SiO₂ NPs. These nanoparticles form a "flower-like" structure in which the "pistil" is made up of TiO₂ and the "petals" that surround it of silver nanoparticles and silica nanoparticles, whose dimensions are of the order of ten nanometers. Their surfaces enjoy abundant hydrophilic functionalities to be dispersed within inks commonly used during the leather finishing process. Leathers functionalized with these nanomaterials showed signific

SUBMITTER: Fierro F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811342 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature