Improvements of the Antistatic and Antipilling Properties of Cashmere Fabric by Applying Foam Finishing Agents Based on Waterborne Polyurethane and Graphene

Abstract

The main purpose of this research work is to prepare functional foam finishing that can be applied to improve the properties of cashmere by introducing antistatic and antipilling agents. In the process of preparing the foam finishing agents, graphene was introduced to cationic and anionic waterborne polyurethanes (CWPU and AWPU), which were applied to reduce fuzzballs on the surface of cashmere fabric. All analyses and tests showed that treated cashmere samples have gained improvements in regard to antistatic and antipilling, as expected.