Complementary Assessment of Commercial Photoluminescent Pigments Printed on Cotton Fabric
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental
2.1. Materials
2.2. Fabrication of Luminescent Samples by Screen-Printing
2.3. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Coating
2.4. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) Spectroscopy
2.5. Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy
2.6. Confocal Fluorescent Microscopy (CFM)
2.7. Optical Properties
2.7.1. Ultraviolet–Visible (UV–Vis) Spectroscopy: Absorbance and Fluorescence Intensity Measurement
2.7.2. Reflectance
2.7.3. Afterglow Decay Kinetics
2.8. PDMS Coating Stability
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Characterization of Photoluminescent Pigments
3.2. Characterization of Luminescent Pigment Printed on Cotton Fabrics
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Gorgieva, S.; Virant, N.; Ojstršek, A. Complementary Assessment of Commercial Photoluminescent Pigments Printed on Cotton Fabric. Polymers 2019, 11, 1216. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11071216
Gorgieva S, Virant N, Ojstršek A. Complementary Assessment of Commercial Photoluminescent Pigments Printed on Cotton Fabric. Polymers. 2019; 11(7):1216. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11071216
Chicago/Turabian StyleGorgieva, Selestina, Natalija Virant, and Alenka Ojstršek. 2019. "Complementary Assessment of Commercial Photoluminescent Pigments Printed on Cotton Fabric" Polymers 11, no. 7: 1216. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym11071216