Investigation on dye ability and antibacterial activity of nanolayer platinum coated polyester fabric using DC magnetron sputtering

In this research work, one side of polyester fabrics was coated by platinum using DC magnetron sputtering. The dye ability of coated and uncoated samples to different natural and synthetic dyes was evaluated. The antibacterial counting test was used for determination of antibacterial efficiency of both treated and untreated samples. The results show that, the existence of platinum nanolayer on the surface of PET fabrics causes improve the dyeability of fabrics. The improvement for natural dyes is more significant than for synthetic dye. According to antibacterial activity tests, platinum itself has no antibacterial effect against Staphylococcus aureus. However, the natural dyed Pt-coated samples show moderate antibacterial effect. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.