Sustainable Textile Fabric Coatings: From Materials to Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 1648
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanocoatings; flame retardants; smart textiles; nanomaterials; energy storage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Textile materials constitute a majority of various products because of their unique mechanical properties, which are involved in various applications. However, because of the recent demand for the comfortability of the textile consumer, various smart functions have to be included in the textile fabrics in order to convert them to smart textiles, such as those with flame retardancy, antibacterial, hydrophobicity, and thermal stability properties. This is in addition to the electrical conductivity and UV protection properties. To this end, textile fabrics have to be treated through coating technology, with smart coating nanocomposites composed of various nanomaterial types (nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanotubes, and graphene) and soft organic moieties (binder, biopolymer, etc.) in order to achieve the required smart functions.
The scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers on the following concepts:
- Novel flame retardant and thermal stability coating textile fabrics;
- Antibacterial textile fabrics coatings;
- Hybrid textile fabrics coatings for enhanced self-cleaning properties;
- Electronic textiles coated with metal nanowires for solar energy applications;
- Electrical-conductive textile fabrics and their sensor applications;
- Hydrophobic and hydrophilic textile fabrics;
- UV protective textile fabrics;
- Effect of different coatings of technology of textile performance;
- Medical textile coatings.
Dr. Nour F. Attaia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smart textile
- nanomaterials
- coatings
- nanocomposites
- UV protective
