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Cellulase immobilized on kaolin as a potential approach to improve the quality of knitted fabric

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Biopolishing is a textile process that uses cellulases to improve the pilling resistance of fabrics. Although the process improves the pilling resistance, softness and color brightness of fabrics, it causes a significant loss of tensile strength in treated fabrics. The present work studied the use of cellulase immobilized on kaolin by adsorption and covalent bonding in biopolishing to get around this problem. The cellulase immobilization has been reported as promising alternative to overcome the inconvenient of biopolishing, but it has been very poorly explored. The results showed that cellulase immobilized by both covalent bonding and adsorption methods provided to the knitted fabric similar or superior pilling resistance to free cellulase, but with greater tensile strength. Immobilization also allowed for efficient recovery and reuse of the enzyme. The present work is a relevant contribution to the literature, since, as far as we know, it is the first work that shows it is possible to minimize the loss of tensile strength and also reuse the immobilized enzyme, giving a better-quality product and also contribution to reducing the cost of the polishing step.

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Abbreviations

BPc:

Biopolishing with buffer solution only

BPk:

Biopolishing with buffer solution and kaolin

BPe:

Biopolishing with free cellulase

BPads:

Biopolishing with cellulase immobilized on kaolin by adsorption

BPcov:

Biopolishing with cellulase immobilized on kaolin by covalent bonding

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The authors are grateful to Coordination for the Improvement of Higher-Level Personnel (CAPES-PRINT/88887.310560/2018-00), Central Laboratory of Electron Microscopy (LCME—UFSC) for SEM analyses, and Akmey and Imerys companies that kindly supplied the enzyme and kaolin, respectively.

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    Janaina de Souza Lima, Ana Paula Serafini Immich, Pedro Henrique Hermes de Araújo & Débora de Oliveira

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de Souza Lima, J., Immich, A.P.S., de Araújo, P.H.H. et al. Cellulase immobilized on kaolin as a potential approach to improve the quality of knitted fabric. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 45, 679–688 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00449-021-02686-5

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