Novel products

摘要

An item selected from a piece of fashion clothing, a clothing accessory or a household textile having a polymeric coating is formed by exposing said item or a material or yarn from which the item is subsequently constructed, to a pulsed plasma comprising a compound of formula (I) where R<1>, R<2> and R<3> are independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl, haloalkyl or aryl optionally substituted by halo; andR<4> is a group X-R<5> where R<5> is an alkyl or haloalkyl group and X is a bond; a group of formula -C(O)O(CH2)nY- where n is an integer of from 1 to 10 and Y is a bond or a sulphonamide group; or a group -(O)pR<6>(O)q(CH2)t- where R<6> is aryl optionally substituted by halo, p is 0 or 1, q is 0 or 1 and t is 0 or an integer of from 1 to 10, provided that where q is 1, t is other than 0, for a sufficient period of time to allow a polymeric layer to form on the surface of the item or yarn. The monomer is preferably 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H - heptadecafluorodecylacrylate Items of this type are protected from contamination by a wide number of liquids, including environmental hazards such as rain water and water based liquids as well as some oily liquids.