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Health and safety concerns of textiles with nanomaterials

Almeida, L. , Ramos, D.
ISLA — Instituto Politécnico de Gestão e Tecnologia
2017
DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/254/10/102002

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Abstract
There is a growing concern related to the effects of nanomaterials in health and safety.Nanotechnologies are already present in many consumer products, including textiles. "Nanotextiles" can be considered as traditional textiles with the incorporation of nanoparticles. They present often functionalities such as antibacterial, ultraviolet radiation protection, water and dirt repellency, self-cleaning or flame retardancy. Nanoparticles can be released from the textile materials due to different effects (abrasion and other mechanical stresses, sweat, irradiation, washing, temperature changes, etc.). It is then expectable that "nanotextiles" may release individual nanoparticles, agglomerates of nanoparticles or small particles of textile with or without nanoparticles, depending on the type of integration of the nanoparticles in textiles. The most important exposure route of the human body to nanoparticles in case of textiles is skin contact. Several standards are being developed under the auspices of the European Committee for Standardization. In this paper, it is presented the development and application of a test method to evaluate the skin exposure to nanoparticles, to evaluate the transfer of the nanoparticles from the textile to the skin by the effect of abrasion and sweat.

Keywords

#nanotextiles #nanoparticles #nanomaterials in textiles #Health and safety #dermal exposure #nanoparticle transfer #abrasion #sweat #test method development #European Committee for Standardization #nanoparticle release #antibacterial textiles #flame retardant textiles #Textile #Abrasion (mechanical) #Nanomaterials #Nanoparticle #Nanotechnology #Materials science #Dirt

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Publication Type Conference paper
Publication Year 2017
ISSN 1757-8981
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Delfina Gabriela Garrido Ramos
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