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Effect of different fabrics types on the adsorption of air pollution in residential and industrial atmosphere in Cairo-Egypt
Letters in Applied NanoBioScience2019
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N. S. Elshemy,
Sahar Nass,
N.M. El-Taieb,
Alia A. Shakour,
Asmaa El-Mekawy,
Ahmed Hassabo,
W Tang,
L Du,
W Sun,
Z Yu,
F He,
J Chen,
X Li,
L Yu,
D Chen,
X Seposo,
K Ueda,
S Park,
K Sudo,
T Takemura,
T Nakajima,
S Pallars,
E Gmez,
A Martnez,
M Jordn,
C.-Y Cheng,
S.-Y Cheng,
C.-C Chen,
H.-Y Pan,
K.-H Wu,
F.-J Cheng,
A Ghorani-Azam,
B Riahi-Zanjani,
M Balali-Mood,
L Bai,
J Wang,
X Ma,
H Lu,
H Orru,
K Ebi,
B Forsberg,
H Lee,
J Jung,
W Myung,
J Baek,
J Kang,
D Kim,
H Kim,
R Dris,
J Gasperi,
C Mirande,
C Mandin,
M Guerrouache,
V Langlois,
B Tassin,
R Brysson,
B Trask,
J Upham,
S Booras,
M Morris,
B Mitchell,
T Aas-Wang,
F Liu,
M Li,
W Shao,
W Yue,
B Hu,
K Weng,
Y Chen,
X Liao,
J He,
I Saleh,
M Hassanien,
Y Ibrahim,
A Shakour,
N Abdel-Latif,
N El-Taieb,
P Kubelka,
F Munk,
K Mehta,
M Bhavsar,
P Vora,
H Shah,
A Waly,
M Marie,
N Abou-Zeid,
M El-Sheikh,
A Mohamed,
A Hassabo,
A Mendrek
Summary
Researchers exposed natural and synthetic fabrics to outdoor air at residential and industrial sites in Cairo for four months and measured changes in whiteness and mechanical properties. Industrial-area fabrics showed greater degradation, reflecting higher concentrations of air pollutants that also deposit onto microplastic particles in the environment.
Different natural, synthetic fabrics and their blend (silk, wool, cotton, nylon, polyester nylon/polyester and wool/polyester) were exposed at two selected sites in residential and industrial atmosphere in Cairo city (Dokki and Helwan) for a period of 4 months. The changes in the whiteness, mechanical properties of the exposed textiles were investigated in both places. Isothermal study was estimated using yellowness index values over exposed fabrics for a different time.