Physical and Chemical analysis of dog hair fiber

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This paper excogitates the potential of an unconventional animal fiber in textile applications. The chiengora fiber taken from dog hair has been chosen for this current study to analyze their chemical, physical, morphological, and thermal properties to explore their usage in textiles. Hairs from five different breeds of dogs namely Labrador, Golden retriever, German shepherd, Pomeranian, and Lhasa apso have been characterized and tested in this study. The research revealed that the chemical, morphological, and thermal properties of the hairs of five breeds are similar to each other. However, marked difference is observed in the physical properties of the fiber such as denier and diameter. It is also found that chiengora fibers have more tenacity than other animal fibers and are very coarser than wool fibers. The X-ray diffraction results reveal that chiengora fibers are having higher crystallinity compared to other animal fibers. Only hairs of Lhasa apso and Pomeranian breed have spinnability characteristics using spinning machines due to their finer denier and higher slenderness ratio and may be spun into yarn to create textile products

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