In this research, fire and radiant heat protection and thermal comfort properties of cotton/nylon-Kermel blended woven fabrics, were utilized to predict the thermal comfort and protection limit of this fabric structure based on Woo and Barker developed model. The results showed that the porosity, the air permeability and the thermal resistance increased with Kermel fiber blend ratio. Conversely...

In humans, melanin plays an esthetic role, dictating hair and skin color traits, while keratin is the protein that comprises most of epidermis layer. Eumelanin pheomelanin are types synthesized from same building blocks via enzymatic oxidation. Pheomelanin has additional block, cysteine amino acid, which affects its final structure. Keratin contains high content, by exploiting free thiols in hy...