Textiles Polymers category: 872 books
Roadmap to Sustainable Textiles and Clothing
Eco-friendly Raw Materials, Technologies, and Processing Methods
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This book covers the elements involved in achieving sustainability in the textiles and clothing sector. The chapters covered in different volumes of this series title aim to cover all the distinctive areas earmarked for achieving sustainable development in the textile and clothing industry. This first...
Textiles and Clothing Sustainability
Sustainable Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This is the first book to deal with the innovative technologies in the field of textiles and clothing sustainability. It details a number of sustainable and innovative technologies and highlights their implications in the clothing sector. There are currently various measures to achieve sustainability...
Polymers against Microorganisms
On the Race to Efficient Antimicrobial Materials
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book provides an introductory and general overview of advances in polymers towards their employment as antimicrobial materials. The author describes current approaches for avoiding microbial contamination, toward macro-molecular antibiotics, and prevention of antibiotic-resistant bacteria by...
by Frankie Ng, Jiu Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Jacquard fabrics feature intricately woven designs. Through the use of digital technology, new design concepts, principles and methods for producing jacquard fabrics have been established, facilitating the creation of a range of novel effects. Innovative jacquard textile design using digital technologies...
Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Volume 1–Structure and Chemistry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
This book introduces anisotropic innovations in liquid crystalline polymers as well as new nanocomposite materials and testing techniques. The authors detail the newest discoveries of material properties, material types and phases, and material characterization. This interdisciplinary work creates...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
The book presents the latest developments in narrow fabrics and smart materials from research institutions, machinery building companies and producers of such products, presented during the International Week of Narrow and Smart Textiles in Spring 2018 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. It also demonstrates...
Northern Archaeological Textiles
NESAT VII: Textile Symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden...
Nano-size Polymers
Preparation, Properties, Applications
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book details all current techniques for converting bulk polymers into nano-size materials. The authors highlight various physical and chemical approaches for preparation of nano-size polymers. They describe the properties of these materials and their extensive potential commercial applications.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Novel Fire Retardant Polymers and Composite Materials reviews the latest scientific developments and technological advances in the design and manufacture of fire retardant polymers and composite materials. Fire retardant polymeric materials are used in a broad range of applications in fields such...
Organic Polymer Chemistry
An Introduction to the Organic Chemistry of Adhesives, Fibres, Paints, Plastics, and Rubbers
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book deals with the organic chemistry of polymers which find technological use as adhesives, fibres, paints, plastics and rubbers. For the most part, only polymers which are of commercial significance are considered and the primary aim of the book is to relate theoretical aspects to industrial...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2006
At present the textile industry produces the majority of its 34 billion square yards of printed textile fabric by screen printing. However as we move into the digital age developments in digital printing of paper are being adapted more and more for the textile market. Inkjet textile printing is growing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2001
Thermal Analysis (TA) has become an indispensable family of analytical techniques in the polymer research. The increased importance of these techniques can be seen as the result of three more or less parallel developments:
• a tempestuous development of TA measuring techniques in combination...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
This is truly an exciting time to be in the ?eld of polymer science. Advances in polymerization methods are providing polymer scientists with the ability to specify and control polymer composition, structure, architecture, and molecular weight to a degree that was not possible just a decade ago. This,...
Antioxidant Polymers
Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Antioxidant Polymers is an exhaustive overview of the recent developments in the field of polymeric materials showing antioxidant properties. This research area has grown rapidly in the last decade because antioxidant polymers have wide industry applications ranging from materials science to biomedical, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.