Functional Fiber Professional Clothing "Show" High-Tech

With differentiation, functionalization, and high performance with functionality

New materials deduce clothing magic

According to Wang Yaomin, Secretary General of China professional wear industry association, in the 2010 World Expo which just closed, high-tech hi-tech suits show up, showing the endless charm of high technology and new materials.

For example, clothing made of Flycool cool fabric can produce a cool feeling of lowering the temperature between 1 and 2 degrees Celsius after exposure to skin. Long time sunlight can produce a cool temperature difference between 3 and 5 degrees Celsius, and has the effect of moisture absorption, sweat relief and ultraviolet resistance.

The moisture regain and fiber thermal diffusivity of this cool fiber fabric are higher than that of ordinary fibers. When wearing this series of clothing, the air conditioner can be adjusted to 1 degrees centigrade, saving 5% to 6% of the electricity charge and reducing the amount of 0.62kg emissions.

A naturally heated "hot fabric" garment developed by an enterprise in Taiwan can be heated to 27.4 degrees centigrade at 15 degrees and then heated to 30.2 degrees.

During the period in World Expo, kimono worn by Japanese service staff was made of heat resistant biological plastic fibers and Kyoto traditional silk fabrics - the crepe de Chine.

After the end of World Expo, these uniforms will be shipped back to Japan along with other facilities of the Japanese Industrial Museum, which will be processed and reproduced through the recycling system.

In addition, all kinds of new functional fabrics, such as antistatic, oil proof, high temperature resistant and flame retardant, as well as professional clothes made of these fabrics are all too much to see.

Professional clothing calls for "three pformations" of fiber.

Yang Wenfen, director of the national quality supervision and Inspection Center for labor protection products, said that the protection capability of protective clothing has been significantly improved by hollow fiber, Kermel (aromatic polyamide argon) fiber, PBI (polybenzimidazole) fiber, superfine fiber, shape memory material, far-infrared ceramic fiber and high-strength fiber.

Nowadays, protective clothing is developing towards multi-functional, composite and systematization, such as compatibility of flame retardant and antistatic, and chemical and moisture permeation.

In addition to meeting the purpose of protection, the protective clothing will also consider more comfortable functions such as lighten clothing load, adjust microclimate in clothing, and carry out antibacterial processing.

In addition to the traditional flame retardant and antistatic fields, new materials and processing technologies such as antibacterial and odorant materials, retroreflective marker materials and so on have emerged one after another. They are also expanding the application field of protective clothing, and at the same time require fiber materials to develop towards differentiation, functionalization and high performance.

According to Cheng Longdi, director of the Ministry of education's Key Laboratory of textile and textile technology and director of national fabric research and development center, the protective clothing has various protective functions, mainly using various functional fabrics, according to Donghua University.

He said, functional materials are excellent electrical, magnetic, optical, thermal, acoustic, mechanical, chemical, biomedical functions, or have special physical, chemical and biological effects, can complete the pformation of functions, mainly used to manufacture all kinds of fiber materials or finishing materials, and are widely used in all kinds of fabrics high-tech materials.

The functional fabric is a special functional textile fabric with functional fiber material or special textile dyeing and finishing.

Functional materials mainly include superconducting fiber materials, biomedical materials, solar cell materials, eco environmental materials, intelligent materials, etc.

At present, the research on advanced materials for functional textiles is mainly focused on carbon fiber, aramid 1414, ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), polyimide, polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), PBO (poly (phenylene benzoxazoles)), M5 fiber (liquid crystal aromatic heterocyclic polymer 2, 5- two hydroxyl -1, 4- pyridine and two imidazole), SiBNC ceramic and other fiber materials.

Functionalization strides towards "well-off society"

Wang Yaomin said that the world's leading fashion brands began to try to incorporate technology elements into their costumes to make their high-end priced clothes more high-performance.

Introducing functional fibers and other new high-tech materials into the field of occupational protection, turning cutting-edge technology into applied technology, focusing on the research and development of professional clothing in aviation, navigation, metallurgy, power, petrochemical and other special fields, meeting the special protection needs such as high temperature, acid and alkali resistance, fire prevention, radiation protection, static electricity protection and so on, will be a key for the professional clothing industry to run comfortably off from "food and clothing".