Perspectives on Cotton Competitiveness

Wednesday, January 9, 2019: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Galerie 4 (New Orleans Marriott)
A Cotton Utilization/Quality Measurement Joint Session.
Organizers:
Mourad Krifa and Christopher D. Delhom
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:40 PM
From the Laundry to the Ocean: A Study on Fabric Shedding and Fiber Degradation
Marielis Zambrano, North Carolina State University; Richard Venditti, North Carolina State University; Joel Pawlak, North Carolina State University; Mary Ankeny, Cotton Incorporated; Jesse Daystar, Cotton Incorporated; Jay Cheng, North Carolina State University
2:30 PM
Durability of Silver Nanoparticles Dispersed into Cotton Fiber during Consecutive Laundering
Sunghyun Nam, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Matthew B Hillyer, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Brian D Condon, USDA-ARS-SRRC; Michael Reynolds, USDA-ARS-SRRC