Functional and Technical Textiles

Dr. Subhankar Maity is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Textile Technology in Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, India. He has more than 10 years of industrial, teaching and research experience. His current teaching areas are technical textiles; structure and properties of fibres; statistical quality control in textile industry; knitting technology, and fabric formation. His main research focuses on conductive polymer coated textiles; graphene-based textiles; MXene based electro-conductive textiles; heat transfer behaviour of fibrous/polymeric materials and related functional textiles. He has more than 50 publications and has edited and authored for leading refereed journals. Kunal Singha is an assistant professor and course coordinator at the Department of Textile Design at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Patna, India. His primary research focus is on sustainable textile, quality, supply and manufacturing chain. He has written more than eighty papers/book chapters/conference proceedings headed by many reputed national/international publishing houses. He is a member of the Textile Association of India, Institute of Engineers and Society of Dyers & Colorists. Dr. Pintu Pandit is an Assistant Professor at the Textile Design Department of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. He received his Ph. D (Tech.) degree in Fibres and Textile Processing Technology from the Institute of Chemical Technology, India. He obtained the IEI Young Engineers Award in 2020 from the Institute of Engineers (India) and Young Educator & Scholars Award in 2021 from the NFED (India). He has several research, review, and book chapter publications for national and international Scopus indexed journals in the areas of: Best out of waste; sustainability in textile and fashion; low-cost sustainable markets; natural dyeing; multifunctional finishing; graphene; atmospheric plasma technology, and nanotechnology. He has edited books for numerous prestigious publishers, including Woodhead publications (Elsevier). He has also published a series of chapters on “Graphene as a Wonder Material” in the Journal of Textile Association (TAI).

1.Introduction to functional and technical textiles
2.Advances in medical textiles
3.Advances in ballistic protection
4.Design of a military protective suit against biological agents
5.Sustainable approach toward antibacterial textiles
6.Advances in ultraviolet (UV) ray blocking textiles
7.Advances in the water proof technologies in textiles
8.Interactive smart textile fabrics
9.Textile fabrics and ferrite-loaded composite materials for electromagnetic-shielding applications
10.Progress in physiological textile sensors for biomedical applications
11.Textile fibrous media for liquid filtration
12.Textiles for heat generation
13.Silica aerogel based high thermal insulation materials
14.Moisture management and wicking behavior of textiles
15.Use of piezoelectric polymers for smart textiles
16.Textile materials for implantable medical devices
17.Auxetic textiles
18.Synthesis and application of pH-responsive polymer for hygienic application
19.Lignocellulosic biowaste for composite applications
20.Recent advances in the development of chromic textiles
21.Comfort and fit of ballistic body armor
22.Testing and evaluation of technical textiles
23.Testing and evaluation of functional textiles
24.Sustainability in functional and technical textiles