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access icon free Screening the UV-blocking and antimicrobial properties of herbal nanoparticles prepared from Aloe vera leaves for textile applications

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Received 18/04/2017, Accepted 18/12/2017, Revised 31/10/2017, Published 19/12/2017

Nanomaterials play a vital role in textile industries due to their unique properties and applications. There is an increase in the use of nanoscale phyto products in textiles to control the bacterial infection in fabrics. Here, natural herbal nanoparticles of different sizes were prepared from shade-dried Aloe vera plant leaves using ball milling technique without any additives. The amorphous herbal A. vera nanoparticles possess an average particle size of 40 ± 2 nm and UV-absorption maximum at 269 nm. A. vera nanopowders–chitosan nanocomposites were prepared and coated on cotton fabrics using pad-dry cure method. The evaluation of antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli (22.05 ± 0.06 mm) and Staphylococcus aureus (27.17 ± 0.02 mm), UV-protection properties (UV-protection factor = 57.2 ± 0.1), and superhydrophobic nature (155 ± 3°) of the prepared herbal nanoparticles and their composites were analysed by disc diffusion, UV–visible spectral analysis, and contact angle analysis. Understanding the functional properties of herbal nanoparticles, coated particles on fabrics highlights their potential applications in protective clothing with better antimicrobial properties, hydrophobicity, and UV-protection properties. This study of using A. vera herbal nanoparticles in textiles significantly enhances the fabric performance to develop protective textile fabrics in defence and biomedical fields.

Inspec keywords: nanocomposites; nanomedicine; protective coatings; curing; contact angle; surface morphology; visible spectra; textile fibres; scanning electron microscopy; ultraviolet spectra; cotton fabrics; protective clothing; particle size; X-ray fluorescence analysis; amorphous state; microorganisms; biodiffusion; light scattering; hydrophobicity; ball milling; nanoparticles; nanofabrication; filled polymers; fluorescence; antibacterial activity; X-ray diffraction; biomedical materials; radiation protection

Other keywords: X-ray fluorescence spectrometry; amorphous herbal A. vera nanoparticles; disc diffusion; scanning electron microscopy; contact angle analysis; dynamic light scattering; morphological characteristics; ball milling; textile applications; natural herbal nanoparticle size; UV-protection factor; nanomaterials; textile industries; UV-absorption maximum; shade-dried Aloe vera plant leaves; UV-blocking; biomedical fields; protective textile fabrics; UV-visible spectrophotometry; average particle size; UV-visible spectral analysis; antimicrobial properties; Staphylococcus aureus; UV-protection properties; pad-dry cure method; superhydrophobic nature; nanoscale phyto products; Escherichia coli; X-ray diffraction; bacterial infection; protective clothing; cotton fabrics; A. vera nanopowders-chitosan nanocomposites

Subjects: Health and safety aspects; Structure of solid clusters, nanoparticles, nanotubes and nanostructured materials; Polymer reactions and polymerization; Structure of amorphous, disordered and polymeric materials; Textile industry; Nanofabrication using thin film deposition methods; Surface treatment and coating techniques; Solid surface structure; Other methods of nanofabrication; Preparation of reinforced polymers and polymer-based composites; Clothing industry; Optical properties of thin films, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures; Engineering materials; Visible and ultraviolet spectra of other nonmetals; Nanotechnology applications in biomedicine; Biomedical materials; Electromagnetic radiation spectrometry (chemical analysis); Powder techniques, compaction and sintering

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