APPLICATIONS OF CYCLODEXTRINES IN TEXTILES - A REVIEW

The cyclodextrin capacity to form inclusion complexes is known for a long time, this property being used in textile industry to obtain products with applications in increasing wear comfort and realization of medical textiles. Yet, there is always the possibility to find new applications of these complexes, either by their permanent fixation on textiles, or by making them environmentally friendly and increasing the performances of some processes from the textile industry or waste water treatment. What concerns the increase of wear comfort, the cyclodextrins serve to improve the wettability and antistatic properties, by catching the smells and perspiration, or to release for a long time the previously encapsulated perfumes. In the medical area, with a view to obtain a slow release of the antibiotics and based on the cyclodextrins capacity to form reversible inclusion complexes with them, operational vascular prostheses were created, which diminish the hazard of postC surgery infections. Based on the same principles, transCdermal treatments were carri ed out, for example the realization of a bandage able to release natrium diclophenac as an antiC inflammatory medicine. The cyclodextrins are also used to release disinfecting or cicatrizing substances at the place were bandages are applied to cure various injuries, and for the realization of textiles with antiC microbial activity which resists to a number of washings. In the field of textile chemical technology optimization, the cyclodextrins are used to remove the surfactants from the