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Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives
Socks are an important part of our clothing used in everyday activities. In order to ensure thermal comfort during wear in cool outdoor or indoor conditions, and for health improvement, socks must have effective thermoregulation properties. Chemical far-infrared (FIR) fibers with different bio-ceram...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9028739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35454601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15082908 |
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author | Stygienė, Laimutė Krauledas, Sigitas Abraitienė, Aušra Varnaitė-Žuravliova, Sandra Dubinskaitė, Kristina |
author_facet | Stygienė, Laimutė Krauledas, Sigitas Abraitienė, Aušra Varnaitė-Žuravliova, Sandra Dubinskaitė, Kristina |
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description | Socks are an important part of our clothing used in everyday activities. In order to ensure thermal comfort during wear in cool outdoor or indoor conditions, and for health improvement, socks must have effective thermoregulation properties. Chemical far-infrared (FIR) fibers with different bio-ceramic compounds incorporated into socks’ structures can provide an improved thermoregulation effect to the wearer of the socks. Fibers with silver and carbon additives incorporated in their structures can also affect the thermoregulation properties of socks. Moreover, these conductive additives avoid the unpleasant effect of static electricity of socks. The main parts of the different investigated structures of the socks were made in a plush pattern. The plush loops were formed by using functional Resistex(®) Bioceramic, Shieldex(®) and two modifications of Nega-Stat(®) fiber yarns. The main thermal comfort (thermal efficiency, microclimate and heat exchange temperatures, thermal resistance, water vapor permeability) and electrostatic (surface and vertical resistances, shielding factor, half time decay of charge) properties of the socks were investigated. Based on the obtained results of the thermal comfort and electrostatic characteristics of the different investigated structures of socks, the optimal static dissipative (half-time decay <0.01 s, shielding factor—0.96) plush knitting structure with 55% Resistex(®) Bioceramic and 31% bicomponent Nega-Stat(®) P210 fibers yarns was selected. Comparing the control sample without FIR and the knitted structure with conductive additives, we can draw the conclusion that the heat retention capability of the selected socks was improved by 1.5 °C and the temperature of their created microclimate was improved by 2 °C. |
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spelling | pubmed-90287392022-04-23 Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives Stygienė, Laimutė Krauledas, Sigitas Abraitienė, Aušra Varnaitė-Žuravliova, Sandra Dubinskaitė, Kristina Materials (Basel) Article Socks are an important part of our clothing used in everyday activities. In order to ensure thermal comfort during wear in cool outdoor or indoor conditions, and for health improvement, socks must have effective thermoregulation properties. Chemical far-infrared (FIR) fibers with different bio-ceramic compounds incorporated into socks’ structures can provide an improved thermoregulation effect to the wearer of the socks. Fibers with silver and carbon additives incorporated in their structures can also affect the thermoregulation properties of socks. Moreover, these conductive additives avoid the unpleasant effect of static electricity of socks. The main parts of the different investigated structures of the socks were made in a plush pattern. The plush loops were formed by using functional Resistex(®) Bioceramic, Shieldex(®) and two modifications of Nega-Stat(®) fiber yarns. The main thermal comfort (thermal efficiency, microclimate and heat exchange temperatures, thermal resistance, water vapor permeability) and electrostatic (surface and vertical resistances, shielding factor, half time decay of charge) properties of the socks were investigated. Based on the obtained results of the thermal comfort and electrostatic characteristics of the different investigated structures of socks, the optimal static dissipative (half-time decay <0.01 s, shielding factor—0.96) plush knitting structure with 55% Resistex(®) Bioceramic and 31% bicomponent Nega-Stat(®) P210 fibers yarns was selected. Comparing the control sample without FIR and the knitted structure with conductive additives, we can draw the conclusion that the heat retention capability of the selected socks was improved by 1.5 °C and the temperature of their created microclimate was improved by 2 °C. MDPI 2022-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9028739/ /pubmed/35454601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15082908 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Stygienė, Laimutė Krauledas, Sigitas Abraitienė, Aušra Varnaitė-Žuravliova, Sandra Dubinskaitė, Kristina Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives |
title | Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives |
title_full | Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives |
title_fullStr | Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives |
title_full_unstemmed | Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives |
title_short | Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives |
title_sort | thermal comfort and electrostatic properties of socks containing fibers with bio-ceramic, silver and carbon additives |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9028739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35454601 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15082908 |
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