EUREKA DEVELOPS ANTIBACTERIAL FIBRE IMPANTS FOR SPORTS PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) research network Eureka has developed inorganic antibacterial chemical additives that can be incorporated into polypropylene fibres, to improve the hygiene and comfort of people wearing artificial textiles. The invention has particularly been designed to help manufacturers of sports and protective clothing, and could also be used in textiles that are a mix of natural and polypropylene fibres.
Antibacterial substances have been incorporated into manmade textiles before, but the advance in this BASTEX project, is that these ...
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