A New Method of Finishing of Cotton Fabric by in Situ Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles

This Article focuses on the functional finishing of textiles using nano silver particles (Ag-NPs), produced directly on the fabric by a chemical reduction of silver nitrate by L-ascorbic acid. Antibacterial textiles were made using the screen-printing and padding-squeezing techniques. These methods of textile finishing allow one to obtain the long-lasting finishes exhibiting the effective antibacterial properties against the strains of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. In this study, a wide range of modem research techniques, which confirmed that these finishes are characterized by the slight migration of the AgNPs from the finished fabric during the textile care, and the long-lasting durability to the washing processes, not published elsewhere until now, was used.