May. 05, 2025
The 21st century is the era of knowledge economy with the development of information technology, life sciences and high-tech development. New textile materials are emerging one after another, and textiles are developing in the direction of high comfort, high function and high intelligence. Clothing products are not only traditional tools to keep out the cold, but also an important tool to improve people's quality of life. With the improvement of the quality of life, people have higher and higher requirements for the comfort, health, safety and environmental protection of clothing fabrics. As a high-performance functional fiber, silver fiber is attracting attention by its unique antibacterial, deodorant, electromagnetic wave radiation shielding, antistatic, and heat regulating functions. It has been used in underwear, home textiles, special clothing, medical care, sports, military equipment and other fields.
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Production of Silver Fiber
The YLshielding™ silver fiber production line adopts multi-rake magnetron vacuum sputtering composite coating and oxidation-resistant processing technology to organically combine pure silver and high-strength fibers to form a solid pure silver crystal layer and oxidation-resistant film structure on the surface of the fiber, with the super conductive, anti-radiation, antimicrobial and other characteristics. Silver fiber products are light in weight and maintain the feel of textiles.
Appearance and Characteristics of Silver Fiber
Appearance of Silver Fiber
Silver fiber has a beautiful appearance of silver gray, but sometimes in order to cater to the customers’ needs and make it more beautiful, the silver fiber yarn is also yellowed, and the true color of silver gray is changed into golden yellow. The test results show that the silver-gray silver fiber has better antibacterial performance and deodorant effect.
Silver fiber yarn is best blended or interwoven with colored yarn (yarn-dyed), so that the woven silver fiber fabric is beautiful and fashionable. If the silver fiber yarn is blended or interwoven with other yarns and then dyed, it is generally necessary to conduct a silver fiber dyeing experiment in advance and ask the customer to confirm the final color. The dyed silver fiber will generally appear dark black, silver gray, silver white and golden yellow. The fabrics of these colors have good antimicrobial and deodorant, electromagnetic field (EMF) shielding and intelligent conductive functions. Among them, the dark black fabric has the best anti bacterial and deodorant properties; Silver gray and silver white fabrics have the best electromagnetic radiation (EMR) shielding and intelligent conductive effects.
Antibacterial and Deodorant Performances of Silver Fiber
The excellent antibacterial function of silver fiber can eliminate more than 650 kinds of pathogens, inhibit the growth of bacteria, and eliminate odor.
The antibacterial properties of silver are derived from silver ions. Because silver ions can form strong bonds with the substances used by microorganisms for respiration (such as molecules containing oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen), these substances cannot be used by microorganisms, making the microorganisms suffocate and die.
YLshielding™ silver fiber has been verified by test that its antibacterial rate against staphylococcus aureus, candida albicans and escherichia coli is more than 99.9% after washing 50 times.
Performance advantages:
• Broad-spectrum antibacterial
• Quick sterilization - reduce bacteria within one hour
• Long lasting – Silver ions can be sterilized repeatedly, giving textiles permanent antibacterial properties.
• Safety - It is not chemical treatment, nor nanotechnology, there is no drug resistance problem of bacteria, and it is non-toxic.
Antistatic Function of Silver Fiber
Silver is highly conductive and can conduct electricity very quickly. As long as a small amount of silver fiber is in the fabric, the static electricity can be quickly eliminated.
Electromagnetic Radiation Protection of Silver Fiber
The conductivity of silver determines that it is an ideal electromagnetic radiation protection material. When the surrounding electromagnetic field touches the silver fiber fabric, the silver fiber fabric can refract or reflect the electromagnetic wave, or convert it into heat to be evacuated. Therefore, the silver fiber fabric is the protective god to protect the human body from electromagnetic radiation.
YLshielding™ silver fiber can shield more than 99.999% of electromagnetic radiation.
Intelligent Conductivity of Silver Fiber
Silver is an excellent conductive material, and its conductivity is as dozens or even hundreds of times as general metals. The silver fiber wire has strong conductivity, low resistivity and low circuit loss. YLshielding™ silver fiber has high electrical conductivity and flexibility, and can be integrated into personal electronic products. It is easy to integrate it into products and clothing as a completely hidden antenna system. Traditional materials will not work. Silver fibers are lightweight, easy to wash, durable, flexible, stretchable and unobtrusive. They are ideal for smart clothing, power cords, data circuits and other high-tech applications.
When silver fiber electrodes are combined with medical treatments to make wearable devices, such as bracelets, arm rings, ankle rings, headgear, hats, vests, underwear, underpants, etc., it can do long-term monitoring of human body EMG, EEG signals, ECG, heart rate, etc.
Body Heat Regulation of Silver Fiber
Silver fiber fabric has good thermal conductivity. In summer, it can quickly conduct moisture on the skin to lower body temperature; in winter, it can reflect heat to the human body to regulate body temperature to produce the best warmth.
The outdoor work clothes made of silver fiber have the functions of antibacterial, deodorization, anti-radiation, antistatic, anti-pollution, etc., and can extend the wearing period in the harsh outdoor environment of water shortage and unconditional washing to protect human health. It is understood that the US military has used silver fiber and CoolMax blended fabrics for military uniforms.
Our silver fiber products as below (Click for details)
1) Silver Coated Nylon Yarn / Sewing Thread
2) Twin faced Silver Fiber Modal Woven Fabric
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3) Double layered Silver Fiber Modal Knitted Fabric
4) Double faced Silver Fiber Cotton Twill Woven Fabric
5) Dual faced Silver Fiber Cotton Plain Woven Fabric
6) Silver Fiber Polyester Colored Woven Fabric
7) 55% Silver Fiber Silk-like Woven Fabric
8) Silver Bamboo Fiber Blended Healthcare Fabric
9) Pure Silver Plated Ripstop Fabric
10) Pure Silver Plated Stretch Knitted Fabric
11) 100% Silver Fiber Knitted Fabric
Silver has been used as currency, ornaments, utensils, poison detection tools, etc. since ancient times. About a thousand years ago, Mongolian herders knew that using silver utensils to hold mare’s milk could keep the milk from spoiling. When drinking water in the wild, just immerse the silver ornaments or silver utensils in the water and stir, and the water will become sterile water.
Modern scientific research has proved that silver ions have excellent antibiotic and sterilization effects. General antibiotics can only work on an average of 6 kinds of bacteria, but silver ions can kill 650 kinds of bacteria, and their ability to kill bacteria is outstanding.
The origin of silver fiber fabrics can be traced back to the early 20th century. Scientists selected silver from many metal materials as conductors for the telecommunications industry. The outstanding performance of silver materials soon made scientists and engineers realize that silver can also be woven into fabrics, thus creating a new material with unique properties.
Due to the high price, the first batch of silver fiber fabrics were only used for military purposes. Wearing clothes made of silver fiber fabrics, soldiers can protect themselves well from electric shocks and electromagnetic interference.
Silver fiber is a fiber-based material. By combining silver particles with fibers, a new material with special functions is formed. Silver particles have excellent antibacterial properties and can effectively kill bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms, thereby protecting our health. In addition, silver fiber also has excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, which makes it have a wide range of application prospects in the field of electronics. In addition, silver fiber also has good air permeability and moisture absorption, making it an ideal functional textile material.
Type 1: Electroplated coated silver fiber
The principle is to place the yarn in a silver dyeing vat, apply electricity to the yarn, and permanently bond a layer of pure silver to the fiber surface in a special way. It not only maintains the original textile properties, but is also endowed with the magical effect of silver particles. Technical limitations make this fabric expensive.
Type 2 :Forged fusion silver fiber
Through forging fusion, silver particles are integrated into yarn fabrics. After high-temperature forging, it is completely fused with other yarn fabrics to become fiber. The advantage is that the antibacterial effect of forged fusion silver fiber is the same as that of silver plating. The disadvantage is that the proportion of silver particles must reach at least 30% to have sufficient effect, so it is not cheap.
Type 3 :Additive-added silver fiber
Compared with silver-plated coating and forged fusion, additives are post-finishing additions with the highest cost-effectiveness. Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious. Like other additives, there is a limit on the number of washings.
1.Feel
High-quality materials are thin, soft and breathable. Because pure silver is applied on the fiber with a special process, it feels smoother, and has great ductility and softness.
2. Freshness
Clothes made of high-quality silver fiber are antibacterial and deodorizing. Even if they are not washed or changed for a week, there will be no sweat and body odor, which controls the generation of odor from the source.
3. Washability
After fiber is produced, it will undergo strict washing tests to ensure the number of washes it can tolerate and its service life; after a maximum of a dozen washes, the number and durability of silver ions in auxiliary silver fiber are relatively low, and the silver component that works is relatively small, so the antibacterial and refreshing effects will be discounted.
4. Price
In order to ensure that pure silver is firm and does not fall off, the process of high-quality silver fiber is complicated and the cost is high, so its price is higher than similar products, and it is known as a light luxury product among materials.
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