Nisha Arya

Dr. Zeba Jamal is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Apparel and Textile Science, College of Community Science, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya. She has an experience of teaching and research of over 3 years. She had cleared ICAR JRF, ICAR SRF and UGC JRF. She has published about 35 research papers, review papers, popular articles etc and also sports 3 national awards. She has been an active speaker on All India Radio for about 16 years. Her specializations are Technical Textiles, Functional Finshes, Traditional Embroidery and Retailing & Merchandising. Dr. Nisha Arya is currently working as Assiociate Professor in the Department of Apparel and Textile Science, IC College of Community Science, Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultutral University, Hisar, Haryana. She has an experience of teaching and research of over 12 years. She has guided about 15 Masters and 5 Doctorarte students. Her specialization are Computer Aided Designing and Apparel & Textile Designing.

The present study was planned to develop antibacterial treatment on cotton fabric by using lemon peel extract. To achieve the objectives proposed, lemon peel extract was selected for treatment application on cotton fabric. Pretreatment was given to cotton fabric and treatment was applied on cotton fabric in standardized concentration of lemon peel extract with exhaust and pad dry cure method. Lemon peels were extracted by cold aqueous maceration. It was found that percentage yield of extract was 19.6% for lemon peel extract. Bacillus spp. were selected for the present study. To study the effect of lemon peel extract the treated samples were tested for microbial resistance actively quantitatively by AATCC-100 test method before and after washing of samples. Treated fabrics were tested for physical properties and found that fabric weight, thickness and bulk of fabric were increased while tensile strength, elongation, bending length, flexural rigidity, air permeability and moisture regain were decreased. After washing physical properties of treated fabric were investigated and found that fabric count, weight, thickness bulk and bending length of lemon peel extract.