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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Thermal Comfort and Electrostatic Properties of Socks Containing Fibers with Bio-Ceramic, Silver and Carbon Additives.

Laimutė Stygienė, Sigitas Krauledas, Aušra Abraitienė, Sandra Varnaitė-Žuravliova, Kristina Dubinskaitė

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Laimutė StygienėDepartment of Textile Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Demokratų Str. 53, LT-48485 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Sigitas KrauledasDepartment of Textile Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Demokratų Str. 53, LT-48485 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Aušra AbraitienėDepartment of Textile Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Demokratų Str. 53, LT-48485 Kaunas, Lithuania.
Sandra Varnaitė-ŽuravliovaDepartment of Textile Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Demokratų Str. 53, LT-48485 Kaunas, Lithuania.ORCID 0000-0001-7930-1751
Kristina DubinskaitėDepartment of Textile Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Demokratų Str. 53, LT-48485 Kaunas, Lithuania.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Socks are an important part of our clothing used in everyday activities. In order to ensure thermal comfort during wear in cool outdoor or indoor conditions, and for health improvement, socks must have effective thermoregulation properties. Chemical far-infrared (FIR) fibers with different bio-ceramic compounds incorporated into socks’ structures can provide an improved thermoregulation effect to the wearer of the socks. Fibers with silver and carbon additives incorporated in their structures can also affect the thermoregulation properties of socks. Moreover, these conductive additives avoid the unpleasant effect of static electricity of socks. The main parts of the different investigated structures of the socks were made in a plush pattern. The plush loops were formed by using functional Resistex® Bioceramic, Shieldex® and two modifications of Nega-Stat® fiber yarns. The main thermal comfort (thermal efficiency, microclimate and heat exchange temperatures, thermal resistance, water vapor permeability) and electrostatic (surface and vertical resistances, shielding factor, half time decay of charge) properties of the socks were investigated. Based on the obtained results of the thermal comfort and electrostatic characteristics of the different investigated structures of socks, the optimal static dissipative (half-time decay <0.01 s, shielding factor—0.96) plush knitting structure with 55% Resistex® Bioceramic and 31% bicomponent Nega-Stat® P210 fibers yarns was selected. Comparing the control sample without FIR and the knitted structure with conductive additives, we can draw the conclusion that the heat retention capability of the selected socks was improved by 1.5 °C and the temperature of their created microclimate was improved by 2 °C.

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bio-ceramiccarbonelectrostaticfar infraredsilversocksthermal effectivenessthermoregulation

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PMID35454601
PMCPMC9028739
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