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Smart Textiles
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Smart Textiles

by Nazire D. Yilmaz
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
402 pages
12h 20m
English
Wiley-Scrivener
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Chapter 9Production Methods of Nanofibers for Smart Textiles

Rajkishore Nayak

Fashion and Textiles Merchandising, School of Communication and Design, RMIT University Vietnam, Saigon South Campus, Vietnam

Email: rajkishore.nayak@rmit.edu.au

Abstract

Over the last two decades, the demand for polymeric nanofibers has increased manifold for various applications in areas of smart textiles. Smart textiles are those textiles that can sense stimuli from the environment, react to them, and adapt to them by integration of functionalities in the textile structure. Nanofibers are increasingly used in smart textiles for sensing, self-cleaning, tissue engineering, communication, wearable computer, and medicine areas. There are several techniques that can be used for the fabrication of nanofibers for smart textile applications, which includes electrospinning, melt blowing, bicomponent spinning, force spinning, and flash spinning. Among these processes, electrospinning is the most popular technique used for producing nanofibers. This chapter discusses about the production methods used to fabricate nanofibers that can be utilized for smart textile applications. The differences among various processes and the recent research works on the fabrication of nanofibers for smart textile applications have also been discussed.

Keywords: Nanofiber, electrospinning, melt spinning, wet spinning, force spinning, bicomponent spinning, flash spinning

9.1 Introduction

Recently, various engineering fields are ...

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