Open AccessREVIEW ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF CLAY AND THEIR USE AS ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS FOR TEXTILES TREATMENT
Author(s) -
Mihaela-Cristina Lite,
Elena Cornelia Tănăsescu,
Lucia Oana Secăreanu,
Irina-Mariana Săndulache,
Ovidiu Iordache,
Elena Perdum
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tex teh
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2068-9101
DOI - 10.35530/tt.2021.51
Subject(s) - textile , clay minerals , antimicrobial , natural organic matter , natural materials , natural (archaeology) , organic matter , biochemical engineering , materials science , chemistry , geology , polymer science , microbiology and biotechnology , mineralogy , biology , engineering , ecology , composite material , paleontology
Traditional uses of clay as medicine started in prehistoric times (Aboriginal times). Natural clays havebeen used in ancient and modern medicine, but the mechanism that makes certain clays lethal to bacterialpathogens has not been yet identified. The aim of this paper is to identify the proper clays that could be used intextile industry for improving textiles` functionality, based on the information extracted from literature. It isimportant, to differentiate between the properties that make a clay ‘healing’, versus what makes it‘antibacterial’. So far, literature is abundant in reports regarding ‘healing’ clays, but, when tested againstpathogens in vitro and compared to controls, they do not appear to have bactericidal properties. The studiescarried out up to this point established that the physical adsorption of water and organic matter is the mainfeature which leads to healing properties of clays; however, the chemical interaction between clay and bacteriahas received less attention. Clay properties, with potential application in medicine, have recently been started tobe investigated and the results indicate that certain natural clays can have noticeable and extremely specificeffects on microbial colonies. Further studies will be directed towards the characterization of the selected ‘claytextile’pairs.