Part 1: Medical and healthcare textile materials 1. An overview of medical textile materials 2. Biomaterials for medical and healthcare products 3. Natural, biodegradable, biocompatible and bioresorbable medical textile materials 4. Biotextile-based adsorbents for medical applications 5. Natural plant extract-treated bioactive textiles for wound healing
Part 2: Biomedical applications 6. Biotextiles for medical implants and regenerative medicine 7. Biomedical textiles for orthopedic and surgical applications 8. Biotextiles and their applications for drug release 9. Biotextile-based scaffolds in tissue engineering 10. Photo-responsive hydrogel-treated fabrics for smart drug delivery systems
Part 3: Health condition and related therapy 11. Metal and metal oxides nanoparticles in healthcare and medical textiles 12. Intelligent (or hi-tech) textiles for monitoring health conditions 13. Thermo-comfort medical textiles for patients 14. pH-thermoresponsive hydrogel-treated fabric for treating re-infected wounds 15. Textiles in cosmetics and personal care 16. Light-emitting fabrics for photodynamic therapy 17. Smart dyes for medical textiles and related therapy 18. Allergies caused by textiles and their control 19. Malodour of medical textiles: Causes and control
Part 4: Test and techniques 20. Nonwoven materials and technologies for medical applications 21. Processing techniques, test methods and regulatory issues of bioactive textiles for medical and healthcare uses
Part 5: Protection and fabric care 22. Occupational clothing for surgeons and nurses 23. Washable, reusable and disposable medical textiles 24. Hospital laundries and their effect on medical textiles
Part 6: Challenges and future trends 25. Research, development and future trends for medical textile products 26. Environmental impact, health hazards and waste management of medical textile products
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 articles and book chapters, as well as 13 books to his credit as an author, co-author, or editor.