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Table of Contents
Volume 1
Preface xix
1 Fundamentals of the Fibrous Materials 1
Jinlian Hu, Md A. Jahid, Narayana Harish Kumar, and Venkatesan Harun
2 Animal Fibers:Wool 37
Xiao Xueliang
3 Animal Fibers: Silk 75
K. Murugesh Babu
4 Cellulose Fibers 95
Feng Jiang
5 Chitosan Fibers 125
Seema Sakkara,Mysore Sridhar Santosh, and Narendra Reddy
6 Collagen Fibers 157
Jinlian Hu and Yanting Han
7 Electrospun Fibers for Filtration 175
Xia Yin, Jianyong Yu, and Bin Ding
8 Aramid Fibers 207
Manjeet Jassal, Ashwini K. Agrawal, Deepika Gupta, and Kamlesh Panwar
9 Conductive Fibers 233
Tung Pham and Thomas Bechtold
10 Phase Change Fibers 263
Subrata Mondal
11 Bicomponent Fibers 281
Rudolf Hufenus, Yurong Yan, Martin Dauner, Donggang Yao, and Takeshi Kikutani
12 Superabsorbent Fibers 315
Nuray Ucar and Burçak K. Kayaoğlu
13 Elastic Fibers 335
Lu Jing
14 Smart Fibers 361
Dong Wang, Weibing Zhong, Wen Wang, Qing Zhu, and Mu Fang Li
15 Optical Fibers 391
Hiroaki Ishizawa
16 Memory Fibers 411
Harishkumar Narayana, Jinlian Hu, and Bipin Kumar
17 Textile Mechanics: Fibers and Yarns 435
Zubair Khaliq and Adeel Zulifqar
18 Textile Mechanics: Woven Fabrics 455
Adeel Zulifqar, Zubair Khaliq, and Hong Hu
19 Fabric Making Technologies 477
Tao Hua
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20 Chemical Characterization of Fibrous Materials 499
Chi-wai Kan and Ka-po Maggie Tang
21 Soft Computing in Fibrous Materials 529
Abhijit Majumdar, Piyali Hatua, and Mirela Blaga
22 Fiber-Shaped Electronic Devices 557
Yang Zhou, Jian Fang, Yan Zhao, and Tong Lin
23 Fibers for Optical Textiles 593
Dana Křemenáková, Jiri Militky, and Rajesh Mishra
24 Fibers as Energy Materials 649
Jiadeng Zhu, Esra Serife Pampal, Yeqian Ge, Jennifer D. Leary, and Xiangwu Zhang
25 Fiber-Based Sensors and Actuators 681
Xiaomeng Fang, Kony Chatterjee, Ashish Kapoor, and Tushar Ghosh
26 Textile-Based Electronics: Polymer-Assisted Metal Deposition (PAMD) 721
Casey Yan and Zijian Zheng
27 Fibers for Medical Compression 749
Bipin Kumar, Harishkumar Narayana, and Jinlian Hu
28 Electrospun Nanofibers for Environmental Protection: Water Purification 773
Hongyang Ma, Christian Burger, Benjamin Chu, and Benjamin S. Hsiao
29 Fibers for Filtration 807
Govindharajan Thilagavathi and Siddhan Periyasamy
30 Fibrous Materials for Thermal Protection 831
Gouwen Song and Yun Su
31 Comfort Management of Fibrous Materials 857
Chengjiao Zhang and FamingWang
32 Fibers for Radiation Protection 889
Boris Mahltig
33 Fibrous Materials for Antimicrobial Applications 927
Yue Deng, Yang Si, and Gang Sun
34 Fibers for Auxetic Applications 953
Hong Hu and Adeel Zulifqar
Index 973
