Determination of Carboxyl Group on Fabric by Acid - base Titration

Polycarboxylic acids have been widely researched as non-formaldehyde DP finishes since late 1980s. However, there has no satisfied wet chemical method for quantifi-cation the carboxylic groups or the esterlinkages on fab-ric, which is important in investigation some basic as-pects of the esterification between polycarboxylic acids and cellulose. In this paper, the wet chemical analysis method, Ca(AC)2 back - titration, had been established to determinate the COOH on fabric. The reliability of this method had also been proved.     

Mechanism of Citric Acid Crosslinking in Cotton Fabrics

Citric acid (CA), which is cheap and nontoxicity, was regarded as the most likely formaldehyde - free durable press finishing reagent to be commercialized. To improve the drawbacks of CA finishs such as yellowing and less durability to home laundering, further research should be done. In this paper, a method had been found to differentiate ester crosslinkings from ester attachments on CA treated fabric and the variations of both ester crosslinkings and ester attachments under different curing conditions were also studied.