Synthesizing and Characterizing of Silver/Copper Nano composite on Nylon fabric

Copper, silver and gold nano particles attracted considerable attention because of their catalytic, optical, anti microbial and conducting properties thanks to extremely large ratio ofsurface area to volume. Copper is an inexpensive candidate to gold and silver in the other hand synthesis of metal nanoparticles other than silver and gold is often more challenging because their surface is prone to oxidation. Copper sulfate in aqueous solution, tends to Cu2O formation due to the presenceof a large number of water molecules, unless other reagents with functional groups that can form complexes with copperions or soluble surfactants as capping agents be used. Recently researchers are interested to use metal nano particles withintextile to improve some properties of fabric such as: mechanical, antifungal, anti microbial, flame retardant, and water repellence properties. Here we have synthesisedcomposite of copper and silver nano particles on nylon fabric through a simple chemical reduction method to obtain bothadvantages of two noble metal nano particles. Also we applied copper nano particles on nylon fabric which to the best of our knowledge, there is no report on utilizing copper nano particle on nylon fabric