When the plasma is first applied and hydrophilic monomers are next graft-polymerized to the surface of cloth, the cloth comes to breathe moisture and control offensive odor simultaneously. The objectives of the present study are to manufacture an intelligent comfortable sportswear made of this cloth which can absorb the sweat and the odor from human body promptly, and can disperse it quickly to the outside environment, and to evaluate the performance of it. First, the atmospheric nonthermal plasma graft polymerization apparatus was improved to treat a commercial sports wear directly. In this apparatus, polyester and acrylic acid can be polymerized on the polyester cloth. Using this apparatus, it was succeeded to manufacture a functional sports wear which has hydrophilic property in the outer side and hydrophobic property in the inner side simultaneously. The performances of moisture breathe and odor control properties were measured for the treated cloth and the two kinds of manufactured sports wears. In order to know the moisture breath property, water droplet falling test was adopted. In order to know odor control properties, the adsorption characteristic of a typical odor component, ammonia gas, was evaluated by measuring the concentrations before and after the cloth in the test section. Using the plasma graft polymerization process, it was possible to manufacture the functional sports wear which has hydrophilic property only in the outer side and good odor adsorption characteristic. Furthermore, qualitative and quantitative evaluations of the two kinds of manufactured sports wears were performed. It was possible to disperse the human sweat to outside environment effectively by wearing the functional sports wear during exercise which has hydrophilic property in the outer side and hydrophobic property in the inner side.

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