Textile & Fibre Technology

Ergonomics in the garment industry imparts knowledge on ergonomics and safety at work in the garment manufacturing industry. Chapters discuss ergon...

Phytoremediation, which involves the use of plants and rhizospheric organisms for the removal of pollutants, is an emerging technology for the clea...

A WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Nothing...

The aim of this monography is to summarise the fundamentals and technical approaches in the processing and behavior of nanostructured materials in ...

The subject of nanotechnology in textiles is as vast as the universe so to restrict its description to a few words is merely impossible. Nanotechno...

Electrospinning techniques are used to produce novel nanoscale fibrous materials used in a diverse range of applications. Electrospinning: Principl...

Fiber is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread. Fibers are very impo...

Both anthropologists and conservation scientists are fascinated by Oceanic barkcloth, or tapa, as it is known by its generic Polynesian term. Histo...

Polypropylene (PP) is a typical polymorphic polymer with -form, -form, -form, and mesomorphic smectic form modifications, and crystallises into ...