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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1998
Seiichi Kataoka, Ikeda, JP;
Susumu Yoshikawa, Ikeda, JP;
Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a method for modifying one surface of a textile fabric or a nonwoven fabric, which comprises coating a sizing agent inactive to plasma treatment on one surface of a hydrophobic or hydrophilic textile fabric or nonwoven fabric, subjecting another surface of the textile fabric or the nonwoven fabric to low-temperature plasma treatment to form an active seed for a graft polymerization reaction, then graft-polymerizing this active seed with a polymerizable monomer, and thereafter removing the sizing agent coated on one surface of the textile fabric or the nonwoven fabric. Clothing in which sweat given in sports or the like can easily be shifted from one surface to another thereof and can easily be evaporated and which has wash and wear properties is obtained.