Detecting Silver in Silver-Enabled Textiles by a Newly-Developed Portable Device. Issue 4 (July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dudás, Tünde; Kovács, Teodóra Nagyné; Szilágyi, Imre Miklós; Mester, Ferenc
• Is Part Of: AATCC Journal of Research. Volume 6:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2019-07
• Subjects: Coated Fiber -- Metal Detection -- Nanoparticle -- Resistance -- SEM-EDX -- Silver
• DOI: 10.14504/ajr.6.4.4
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2472-3444

Abstract

In the production of silver-enabled textiles, the amount of silver in the produced textile is always important. The goal of the present study is to develop a simple device that can directly detect silver instead of using destructive tests and calculations. The instrument developed by our group is simple, easy to use, and portable. It gives a voltage response corresponding to the silver content. To show its capabilities, a correlation is presented between the measured voltage and the relative amount of metal (i.e., silver) on silver-enabled textiles after several washing and electrolysis steps. The results of scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDX) measurements are also presented as a reference for the silver determinations.