Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers

Nanoparticles are very interesting because of their surface properties, different from bulk materials. Such properties make possible to endow ordinary products with new functionalities. Their relatively low cost with respect to other nano-additives make them a promising choice for industrial mass-pr...

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Main Authors:	Rivero, Pedro J., Urrutia, Aitor, Goicoechea, Javier, Arregui, Francisco J.
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Springer US 2015
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695484/

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spelling	pubmed-46954842016-01-08 Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers Rivero, Pedro J. Urrutia, Aitor Goicoechea, Javier Arregui, Francisco J. Nano Review Nanoparticles are very interesting because of their surface properties, different from bulk materials. Such properties make possible to endow ordinary products with new functionalities. Their relatively low cost with respect to other nano-additives make them a promising choice for industrial mass-production systems. Nanoparticles of different kind of materials such as silver, titania, and zinc oxide have been used in the functionalization of fibers and fabrics achieving significantly improved products with new macroscopic properties. This article reviews the most relevant approaches for incorporating such nanoparticles into synthetic fibers used traditionally in the textile industry allowing to give a solution to traditional problems for textiles such as the microorganism growth onto fibers, flammability, robustness against ultraviolet radiation, and many others. In addition, the incorporation of such nanoparticles into special ultrathin fibers is also analyzed. In this field, electrospinning is a very promising technique that allows the fabrication of ultrathin fiber mats with an extraordinary control of their structure and properties, being an ideal alternative for applications such as wound healing or even functional membranes. Springer US 2015-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4695484/ /pubmed/26714863 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-015-1195-6 Text en © Rivero et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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author	Rivero, Pedro J. Urrutia, Aitor Goicoechea, Javier Arregui, Francisco J.
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author_facet	Rivero, Pedro J. Urrutia, Aitor Goicoechea, Javier Arregui, Francisco J.
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title	Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers
title_short	Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers
title_full	Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers
title_fullStr	Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers
title_full_unstemmed	Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers
title_sort	nanomaterials for functional textiles and fibers
description	Nanoparticles are very interesting because of their surface properties, different from bulk materials. Such properties make possible to endow ordinary products with new functionalities. Their relatively low cost with respect to other nano-additives make them a promising choice for industrial mass-production systems. Nanoparticles of different kind of materials such as silver, titania, and zinc oxide have been used in the functionalization of fibers and fabrics achieving significantly improved products with new macroscopic properties. This article reviews the most relevant approaches for incorporating such nanoparticles into synthetic fibers used traditionally in the textile industry allowing to give a solution to traditional problems for textiles such as the microorganism growth onto fibers, flammability, robustness against ultraviolet radiation, and many others. In addition, the incorporation of such nanoparticles into special ultrathin fibers is also analyzed. In this field, electrospinning is a very promising technique that allows the fabrication of ultrathin fiber mats with an extraordinary control of their structure and properties, being an ideal alternative for applications such as wound healing or even functional membranes.
publisher	Springer US
publishDate	2015
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4695484/
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Nanomaterials for Functional Textiles and Fibers

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