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Other possible products that can be micro-encapsulated are: moisturisers, essential oils, vitamins, deodorants and even insect repellents. Moisturisers, for instance, have been incorporated by micro-encapsulating on stockings in order to improve the comfort and prevent drying out of the skin. Such panties are commercialised by the French underwear company DIM [180]. Skintex ® from Cognis is another product that can be applied to clothes for skincare. Based on slow release microcapsules, Skintex® uses active ingredients that have a real effect on wellbeing, such as moisturising, cooling, energising, relaxing and mosquito repelling. The microcapsules are embedded into the fabric. These are filled with high-grade ingredients and, over time, they are slowly released onto the skin. A protective layer of chitosan protects each capsule, saving its contents from warmth, drying out and the cold, and giving it durability against the wear and tear of day-to-day life. At the same time, chitosan has skin-caring attributes. It helps to protect the skin from dehydration. The ingredients are released through two mechanisms. Firstly, there is the light friction the wearer creates when wearing clothes fitted with the capsules. Secondly, the chitosan layer is slowly reduced over time through the wearer’s body's own enzymes - activating the ingredients and enabling them to move from the fabric onto the skin. According to the company, every fabric, be it a natural or synthetic material, can be fitted with Skintex ® [181]. Fig. 97 Skintex® on polyester (left picture) and Skintex® on cotton 5right picture) (Source: Cognis) Further, Neyret, a French clothing company, developed fragrant lingerie. Olivier Lapidus is the first haute couture designer to use the technique of micro-encapsulation to create ‘perfumed’ fabrics for evening wear. The perfume is wash-resistant and dry-clean resistant and the fabrics release their fragrance gradually, during wearing. 105
2.4.3.2 Patents published The Secretary of State of Defence in Britain claims the production of a thermally insulating textile adapted to provide a variable degree of thermal insulation dependent on ambient temperature. The textile construction is composed of a laminate of two fabric layers having an interposed bulking layer onto which shape memory polymers in a repeated pattern are arranged. Thus, the bulk layer can vary the air gap between the two fabric layers depending upon a predetermined temperature (US 6312784 B2). In US patent 6989471 from 2006 The Procter & Gamble company claims the invention of a hygienic absorbent article such as diapers; adult incontinence articles or feminine protection articles. This article comprises two layers with an absorbent core and a phase change material in between. The PCM is capable of releasing or absorbing heat when needed and is activated by the wearer, caregiver or environmental conditions between the article and the wearer. Malden Mills published a patent (US 6723967) in 2004 in which they claim heating or warming textile articles with phase change components. The heating textile, for instance in form of a jacket, consists of a fabric with electrical resistance heating elements that generate heat upon application of electrical power, e.g. from a battery mounted to the fabric. The PCM is also included into the fabric and is formulated to change phase in the temperature range of use, to cyclically absorb and release latent heat. Is it maybe the Polartec fleece? In US patent 6759476 a flexible thermal control composite is claimed. The composite comprises a polymer and an endothermic agent. The endothermic agent is dispersed, distributed and suspended in the polymer. Then it is cured to form a Polymer Containing an Endothermic Agent (PCEA) 6 . Thereafter they were extruded and spun into PCEA fibres, which can then be processed into textile structures. In general, the PCEA composite finds versatile applications, including protective clothing, winter clothing, diving suits, but also furniture, walls, car interiors etc.. 2.4.4 Applications in the interior textile sector 2.4.4.1 Research projects and products In Britain, scientists have developed an acrylic fibre by incorporating microcapsules containing phase change materials. These fibres have been used for producing lightweight all-season blankets. 6 PCEAs are capable of thermal control through their ability to absorb and store heat or to absorb and release it 106
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