Smart Textiles from Natural Resources is an interdisciplinary guide for best practices and emerging challenges in the use of natural textiles in smart applications. The movement towards smart textiles has attracted researchers from many fields creating multidisciplinary research frontiers with nanoscience, smart materials and structures, microelectronics, and wireless communication. This groundbreaking book provides technical advice and foundational support to researchers from all of these backgrounds. Each chapter in is written, reviewed, and edited to cover the principles of manufacture, process techniques and mechanisms, and state-of-the-art construction specifications, properties, test methods, and standards of major product areas and applications.
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Table of Contents
1. An introduction to smart textiles and clothing2. Fabric structures, design and their impact on smart clothing
3. Cotton and other cellulose fibres for comfort smart clothing and applications
4. Silk and wool as smart materials for medical textiles
5. Dyeing and active coatings for smart textiles
6. Nanotechnology-based functional finishing for smart textiles and applications
7. Electrospun nanofibres for electronic devices and their applications
8. Thermal regulation of electrically conducting fabrics
9. Processings techniques, test methods and regulatory standards of smart textiles
10. Smart bio-textiles for medicine and healthcare
11. Intelligent clothing for prehospital emergency care
12. Smart medical textiles for monitoring heart conditions
13. Smart medical clothing for disabled and aged people
14. Phase change and shape memory materials in smart medical textiles
15. Psychotextiles and their interaction with the human brain
16. Smart textiles for infection control and wound management
17. Microencapsulation technology for smart textile coatings
18. Smart wearable clothing Production and applications
19. Smart bio-geotextiles and its applications
20. Architectural applications of smart textiles
21. Smart bio-textiles for automotive applications
22. Color-changing and photonic tunable smart textiles and their applications
23. Smart textiles in sensors, actuators and computing systems
24. Biomimetic approaches to the design of smart textiles
25. High-performance smart textiles for construction and geo-technical applications
26. Fabric joining technologies for smart clothing
27. Applications of smart clothing in communication technology
28. Smart textiles for digital printing technology Environmental aspects, health issues and waste management of smart textile products
Authors
Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal Professor, Polymer and Textile Research Laboratory, Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal is a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was a Commonwealth Visiting Scholar at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in the United Kingdom during 2003-04, a Visiting Professor at the Hokkaido University in Japan during 2006-07, and a Visiting Scientist at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia during 2009-10. In 2018, he was awarded the UGC Gold Medal of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh (UGC) by the President, and in 2020, he won the Dean's Award. Natural Fibres, Biofilms, Biopolymers, and Biocomposites, Cellulose & Derivatives, Superabsorbent Hydrogels, Biomaterials, Smart fibres, Nanomaterials in Textiles, Microbial Cellulose, Textile Modification, Functional Textiles, and Textiles-wet Processing are his research areas. He has over 170 research articlesand book chapters, as well as 13 books to his credit as an author, co-author, or editor.
