Production of barite-doped yarns and testing their usability for ionizing and electromagnetic radiation shielding.

Barite-doped and polypropylene-based masterbatches were produced at different ratios, and 1 × 1 Rib type weaving process was carried out by obtaining filament yarns. While the morphological and structural properties of the obtained textile products were investigated with XRD, FTIR and SEM, thermal stabilities were investigated with TGA. Then, the shielding abilities of the products against ionizing and electromagnetic radiation were analyzed. The shielding properties against ionizing radiation were studied with mass attenuation coefficient, half value layer, effective atomic number and radiation protection efficiency parameters at nine different energies in the energy range of 17.75 to 81.0 keV. The shielding properties against electromagnetic radiation were studied in the range of 15 to 40 GHz. To test the usability of the products, antibacterial activity tests, breaking strength and elongation tests and surface resistivity tests were carried out. It has been observed that all products are suitable in terms of usability and also, ionizing and electromagnetic radiation shielding properties increase with increasing barite content, and the product containing 10% barite is a good shielding material for radiation compared to others. The data of the present survey can be quite helpful for possible applications such as aerospace, medicine, science, nuclear industry. • Barite-doped and polypropylene-based masterbatches were produced. • 1 × 1 Rib type weaving process was carried out by obtaining filament yarns. • Their shielding abilities for ionizing and non-ionizing radiation were analyzed. • Their characterizations were carried out with XRD, FTIR, SEM and TGA. • Antibacterial activity, breaking strength and elongation tests were carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]