Textiles and Clothing Sustainability: Nanotextiles and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9789811095542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 115 str.

Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

Spis treści

1.Innovative approaches in nano textile finishes – Some insights on current trends Recent advances in nano textile finishes – An approach towards sustainability.- 2.Nano Chemicals and Effluent Treatment in Textile Industries.- 3.Insights into the functional finishing of textile materials using nanotechnology.

O autorze

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as Environmental Services Manager-Asia, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled,” Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags” He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, textile testing and sustainability evaluation of various materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 80 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, 6 book chapters and over 25 scientific books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals of textiles and environmental science disciplines.

Blurb

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of textiles and clothing sector in light of nanomaterials and technologies. The invasion of nano in every industrial sector has been important and has made remarkable changes as well as posed new challenges, including the textiles and clothing sector. There is quite a great deal of research happening in terms of nano materials for textiles across the globe, some of which are covered in this book.