development of longer-lasting insect repellence cellulosic based curtain fabrics发展持久昆虫排斥性纤维素窗帘面料.pdfVIP

Materials Sciences and Applications, 2011, 200-208 doi:10.4236/msa.2011.23025 Published Online March 2011 (/journal/msa) Development of Longer-Lasting Insect Repellence Cellulosic Based Curtain Fabrics 1* 1 2 3 Afaf Farag Shahba , Osama Halawa , Mohamed Ragaei , Mohamed Hashem 1Department of Spinning, Weaving and Knitting Engineering, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Helwan, Egypt; 2Department of Pests and Plant Protection, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt; 3Textile Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. E-mail: afaffarag1999@ Received October 6th, 2010; revised February 9th, 2011; accepted February 23rd, 2011. ABSTRACT Long lasting insect repellent curtain fabrics were developed and characterized. Different types of fabrics which are generally used in manufacture of curtain fabrics were functionalized with monochlorotriazenyl β-cyclodextrin (MCT- β-CD) then treated with different concentration from permethrin to impart the fabric insect repellent properties. These fabrics were 100% cotton, cotton/viscose, cotton/linen, polyester/cotton, polyester/linen and polyester/viscose blend fabrics . The treated curtain fabrics were evaluated for insect repellent retention capacity against mosquitoes. The re- pellent efficacy comprises the determination of percent mosquitoes repelled , knockdown and killed (mortality) resulting from exposed mosquitoes to the treated fabric. Results obtained shows that , the insect repellent retention capacity of curtain fabrics functionalized with R-β-CD then treated with permethrin depends on the amount of β-CD moieties on the curtain fabrics, type of fabric and permethrin concentration. Higher action is obtained when the fabric was func- tionalized with 100 g/L, MCT-β-CD i