A PROCESS FOR PLATING A METAL ON A TEXTILE FIBER

摘要

There is provided a process for plating a metal on a textile fiber comprising the steps of: an optional pretreatment process (2); contacting the textile fiber with a first formulation comprising metal ions to thereby deposit the metal ions onto the textile fiber (4); contacting the metal ion deposited textile fiber with a second formulation comprising a reducing agent to thereby reduce the deposited metal ions to form the metal on the textile fiber (6); a repeat step (8) in which the first contacting step (4) and second contacting step (6); an optional contacting step (10) in which the metal plated textile fibers are contacted with a surface capping ligand to encapsulate the plated metal.