Almost like a flower meadow: Laundry and accessories can smell of various blossoms if the textile fibers are equipped with fragrant essences. Image: Pixabay
Almost like a flower meadow: Laundry and accessories can smell of various blossoms if the textile fibers are equipped with fragrant essences. Image: Pixabay - To provide laundry with fragrances without the effect disappearing after the first laundering is quite a challenge. Empa researchers have now developed fibers that release the scent of roses or cloves - permanently. What's more, the hollow fibers can also be equipped with other active ingredients. Core-sheath fibers are produced from two components in the melt spinning process. The picture shows a textile polymer fiber with a central core. Scanning electron micro-scope image, magnified 1,200 x, colored.
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