Development of Surface Treatment Apparatus for Manufacturing Functional Wear Using Low-Temperature Plasma

When the plasma is first applied and hydrophilic monomers are next graft-polymerized to the surface of cloth, the cloth comes to breathe moisture and control offensive odor simultaneously. The objectives of the present study are to manufacture an intelligent comfortable wear which can absorb the sweat and the odor from human body promptly, and can disperse it quickly to outside environment. First, the atmospheric nonthermal plasma graft polymerization apparatus was improved to treat a wear directly. Using this apparatus, it was succeeded to manufacture functional wears having hydrophilic property in the outer side and hydrophobic property in the inner side simultaneously. The performances of moisture breathe and odor control properties were evaluated for the treated clothes and manufactured wears. It was confirmed that water vapor and ammonia could be effectively removed from human body.