Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics for the Discrimination of Animal Hair Fibers for the Textile Sector

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Analyzing the composition of animal hair fibers in textiles is crucial for ensuring the quality of yarns and fabrics made from animal hair. Among others, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is a technique that identifies vibrations associated with chemical bonds, including those found in amino acid groups. Cashmere, mohair, yak, camel, alpaca, vicuña, llama, and sheep hair fibers were analyzed via attenuated total reflection FT-IR (ATR FT-IR) spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy techniques aiming at the discrimination among them to identify possible commercial frauds. ATR FT-IR, being a novel approach, was coupled with chemometric tools (partial least squares discriminant analysis, PLS-DA), building classification/prediction models, which were cross-validated. PLS-DA models provided an excellent differentiation among animal hair of both camelids and eight animal species. In addition, the combination of ATR FT-IR and PLS-DA was used to discriminate the cashmere hair from different origins (Afghanistan, Australia, China, Iran, and Mongolia). The model showed very good discrimination ability (accuracy 87%), with variance expression of 94.88% and mean squared error of cross-validation of 0.1525.

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Animal hair textile fibers attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy ATR FT-IR infrared spectroscopy multivariate analysis scanning electron microscopy SEM

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