S. Kokot et al., CHARACTERIZING OXIDATIVELY DAMAGED COTTON FABRICS .2. A MODEL FOR THECATALYTIC DAMAGE PHENOMENON USING ELECTROGENERATED OXYGEN, Textile research journal, 64(12), 1994, pp. 710-716
''Catalytic damage'' occurs in cotton fabrics during hydrogen peroxide
bleaching. The model for catalytic damage proposed previously by Meye
r, Kokot, Weber, and Zurcher is compared with a laboratory simulation
of cotton cellulose damage produced using electrogenerated oxygen spec
ies at metal electrodes. Additional electrochemical information is pro
vided to support the previously proposed mechanism of the damage of a
cotton poplin. Diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy and chemometr
ics are used for relative qualitative and quantitative interpretation
of the damage.