Abstract
Developing wet-laid papers with a good wet strength remains a longstanding challenge in the papermaking industry. In this study, hydroentanglement, a mechanical bonding technique is developed to consolidate the wet-laid fibre web. The results indicate that wet tensile strength, ductile stretching property, softness, air permeability and water absorbency of the wet-laid fibre web are significantly improved by hydroentanglement. In addition, the abrasion test shows that the dusting off rate of wet-laid fibre web can be effectively reduced through hydroentanglement. Moreover, the disintegration experiment proves that wet-laid hydroentangled nonwovens could be easily dispersed when compared with conventional carded hydroentangled nonwovens. Therefore, the new wet-laid hydroentangled nonwovens can maintain excellent performance in a wet state, showing a great potential for personal hygiene applications.
Highlights
In recent years, the demand of wet-laid materials for personal hygiene care, beauty care, medical care, household wipe cleaning and industrial cleaning has grown significantly owing to the improvement of living standards [1,2,3,4,5,6]
Tencel fibres, a kind of cellulose fibres are used owing to their high wet strength and modulus
It should be noted that the pulp fibres exhibit a ribbon structure with a width and a thickness of 34.7 ± 9.2 and 5.0 ± 1.8 μm, respectively, while the Tencel fibres have a circular cross-section in diameter of 11.9 ± 1.1 μm
Summary
The demand of wet-laid materials for personal hygiene care, beauty care, medical care, household wipe cleaning and industrial cleaning has grown significantly owing to the improvement of living standards [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Papers are usually produced through a fibre web forming via wet-laid technique and subsequent bonding process [14,15,16]. Apart from wood pulp fibres, a range of fibres including polyester fibres, polyamide fibres, carbon fibres, ceramic fibres, glass fibres and cellulose fibres can be manufactured through the wet-laid technique
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