Sustainable fashion: Design of the experiment assisted machine learning for the environmental-friendly resin finishing of cotton fabric.

ABSTRACT: Given the carcinogenic properties of formaldehyde-based chemicals, an alternative method for resin-finishing cotton textiles is urgently needed. Therefore, the primary objective of this study is to introduce a sustainable resin-finishing process for cotton fabric via an industrial procedure. For this purpose, Bluesign® approved a formaldehyde-free Knittex RCT® resin was used, and the process parameters were designed and optimized according to the Taguchi L₂₇ method. XRD analysis confirmed the crosslinking formation between resin and neighboring molecules of cotton fabric, as no change in the cellulose crystallization phase. Several machine learning models were built in a sequence to predict the crease recovery angle (CRA), tearing strength (TE) and whiteness index (WI). Assessme

SUBMITTER: Pervez MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9860286 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature