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CARBOHYDRATE POLYMERS
Volume 94, Issue 1, Pages 372-377Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2012.12.075
Keywords
Cotton; Whey protein isolate; Thermal properties; Flame retardancy
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- Italian Ministero delle Politiche Agricole e Forestali
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It is well described in the literature that whey proteins are able to form coatings, which exhibit high mechanical and oxygen barrier properties, notwithstanding a great water vapour adsorption. These peculiarities have been exploited for applying a novel protein-based finishing treatment to cotton and for assessing the protein effect on the thermal and thermo-oxidative stability and on the flame retardant properties of the cellulosic fabric. Indeed, the deposited whey protein coatings have turned out to significantly affect the thermal degradation of cotton in inert and oxidative atmosphere, and to somehow modify its combustion when a flame has been applied. Furthermore, the influence of the secondary and tertiary structure of these proteins on the morphology of the deposited coating, and thus on the thermal and flame retardant properties of the treated fabrics, has been evaluated by performing a denaturation thermal treatment before the protein application. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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