About this Research Topic
Over the last few years, there is a tremendous growth of customer’s awareness for upgrading their traditional clothes and apparels necessary to be smarter than ever for improving their life. Nanotechnology creates an opportunity for fabricating multi-functional textiles with sustainable durability that can be integrated into smart textile. Nanoparticles (NPs) are a wide class of ultrafine materials that possess at least one nanoscale dimension(1-100nm). In turns, they exhibit chemical and physical properties that differ significantly from those of their bulk counterparts. Due to their remarkable characteristics, synthesized nanomaterials can be integrated into various biomedical and biotechnological applications such as healthcare, food, textile industry, cosmetics, optics, energy science, photocatalysts, and electronics. Recently, the correlation between NPs and the textile industry has taken more attention, especially with the spread of microbial and viral infections.
Bacterial and viral infections are a major problem for the safety of both patients and healthcare team in healthcare units and medical facilities such as hospitals, small clinics, and doctor’s offices.. Textiles and apparel are one of the main intermediate infection vehicles between patients and others. It is necessary to develop smart textiles that reduce the spread of microbial infection by introducing resistance pattern or self-cleaning mode to the medical textile. Therefore, considerable developments have been recently established for setting up medical wearable textiles in the realm of nanotechnology. In particular, metal and metal oxides NPs and their nanocomposites have been approached mainly by chemical, physical, and biological methods. Emerging coatings such as biopolymers and nanomaterials imparted fascinating functions to medical textiles, such as resistance to pathogens, hydrophobicity, and/or blocking of harmful UV-rays. The project with undertaken with a view to fabricating multifunctional textiles. Particular concern is given to medical textiles resistant to harmful microbes, such as Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as viral infections, through the integration of NPs.
This project aims to highlight the main ideas, routes and materials used for developing medical textiles through the implementation of nanoparticulated substances from natural or synthetic sources. These nanoparticles may be also inorganic or organic based materials including:
• Nanomaterials
• Biopolymers
• Biomacromolecules
• Nanocomposites
• Coating agents
Herein, we have a trigger to support any publications in this realm with special focusing on antimicrobial activities, in-vitro and in-vivo cytotoxicity, UV-blocking and self-cleaning properties of textile.
Bacterial and viral infections are a major problem for the safety of both patients and healthcare team in healthcare units and medical facilities such as hospitals, small clinics, and doctor’s offices.. Textiles and apparel are one of the main intermediate infection vehicles between patients and others. It is necessary to develop smart textiles that reduce the spread of microbial infection by introducing resistance pattern or self-cleaning mode to the medical textile. Therefore, considerable developments have been recently established for setting up medical wearable textiles in the realm of nanotechnology. In particular, metal and metal oxides NPs and their nanocomposites have been approached mainly by chemical, physical, and biological methods. Emerging coatings such as biopolymers and nanomaterials imparted fascinating functions to medical textiles, such as resistance to pathogens, hydrophobicity, and/or blocking of harmful UV-rays. The project with undertaken with a view to fabricating multifunctional textiles. Particular concern is given to medical textiles resistant to harmful microbes, such as Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as viral infections, through the integration of NPs.
This project aims to highlight the main ideas, routes and materials used for developing medical textiles through the implementation of nanoparticulated substances from natural or synthetic sources. These nanoparticles may be also inorganic or organic based materials including:
• Nanomaterials
• Biopolymers
• Biomacromolecules
• Nanocomposites
• Coating agents
Herein, we have a trigger to support any publications in this realm with special focusing on antimicrobial activities, in-vitro and in-vivo cytotoxicity, UV-blocking and self-cleaning properties of textile.
Keywords: Nanomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomacromolecules, Nanocomposites, Coating agents
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