by Md. Ibrahim H. Mondal
Smart Textiles from Natural Resources is an interdisciplinary guide for best practices and emerging challenges in the use of natural textiles in smart applications. The movement towards smart textiles has attracted researchers from many fields creating multidisciplinary research frontiers with nanoscience, smart materials and structures, microelectronics, and wireless communication. This groundbreaking book provides technical advice and foundational support to researchers from all of these backgrounds. Each chapter in is written, reviewed, and edited to cover the principles of manufacture, process techniques and mechanisms, and state-of-the-art construction specifications, properties, test methods, and standards of major product areas and applications.
- Covers a wide variety of novel applications of smart textiles, including medical, protective, and automotive
- Proposed solutions are based on case studies from academic and industrial labs around the world
- Explains how to improve the biodegradability, renewability, biocompatibility, and non-toxicity of smart products
