Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Gregory Daniel Samek

Kaiyuan Yang

Carl Gerard Rippl

Joseph Kenneth Baker

Joel Brostin

A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.

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Gregory Daniel Samek