Smart Coatings on Fibers and Textiles
A special issue of Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 April 2019) | Viewed by 94979
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrospinning for tissue engineering applications; biomineralization
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Dear Colleagues,
Today, we know that nanotechnology has been considered extensively in fiber and textile engineering in order to perform new functionalities. Ultrafine nanoparticles can transfer their intrinsic properties to fibers and textiles by surface coatings. Although several research studies confirmed such functionalities, research is still in progress in laboratories around the world to establish further results. Smart coatings can also be performed on textile products through other methods, such as plasma and laser coatings, sol-gel techniques, magnetron sputter coating, layer-by-layer techniques and crosslinking using polymers. Several properties are demonstrated using these methods, such as antibacterial, superhydrophobic, fire retardant, self–cleaning, superhydrophilic, moth-proofing, electromagnetic shielding, and electrical conductivity.
In this Special Issue, original research papers, as well as reviews, are welcome. The goal is to gather contributions on various aspects related to smart coatings, including preparation, analyses, industrial uses, as well as their potential toxicity to humans during their usage.
I hope that this Special Issue will provide the scientific community with a thorough overview of the current research on smart fibers and textiles.
Dr. Mazeyar Parvinzadeh Gashti
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface grafting
- plasma and laser
- nanocomposites
- layer-by-layer
- sputter coating
- functionality
- toxicity.