Environmentally sound textile dyeing technology with nanofibrillated cellulose

Yunsang Kim; Lauren Tolbert McCoy; Eliza Lee; Hansol Lee; Raha Saremi; Corbin Feit; Ian R. Hardin; Suraj Sharma; Sudhagar Mani; Sergiy Minko

doi:10.1039/C7GC01662J

Environmentally sound textile dyeing technology with nanofibrillated cellulose†

Yunsang Kim,

^a Lauren Tolbert McCoy,^a Eliza Lee,^a Hansol Lee,^b Raha Saremi,^a Corbin Feit,^a Ian R. Hardin,^a Suraj Sharma,^a Sudhagar Mani^b and Sergiy Minko

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^a Nanostructured Materials Lab, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
E-mail: sminko@uga.edu

^b College of Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA

Abstract

We have developed a sustainable dyeing technology with nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) fibers that would decrease the amount of water, salt and alkali used in cotton dyeing by one order of magnitude, but with comparable dyeing performance to a conventional exhaust dyeing method.

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Environmentally sound textile dyeing technology with nanofibrillated cellulose†

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