Interrelationships between cotton fiber quality traits and tensile properties of hydroentangled nonwoven fabrics

Cotton fibers can be used to produce nonwovens suitable for numerous single use applications including hygiene, wipes, and medical products among others. comprises a relatively small amount of total raw materials in production compared the synthetic polyester polypropylene, but cotton continues increase due demand disposable containing natural, sustainable, biodegradable materials. However, relationship between fiber classification measurements nonwoven fabric physical functional properties are not well characterized. A better understanding effects on will facilitate selection specific end-use applications. In this study, with broad distributions quality from 10 recombinant inbred lines multi parent advanced generation intercross multiparent population were harvested processed their greige state into hydroentangled fabrics two distinct basis weights. Tensile testing lightweight indicated length tensile strength at break positively correlated strength, whereas micronaire (air permeability bundle) was negatively indicating finer contributed increased strength. Increased heavyweight mainly higher uniformity index. These results suggest that could selectively sourced based establishes alternative market opportunities classified as inferior subject discount pricing woven textile market.