
Advances in Plasma Treatment of Textile Surfaces
- 1st Edition - January 24, 2024
- Editors: Shahid Ul Islam, Aminoddin Haji
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 0 7 9 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 0 8 0 - 3
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Plasma Treatment of Textile Surfaces offers a detailed overview on the use of plasma in natural and synthetic textiles and explores applications in technical textiles, including composites, ballistic performance, functionalization, and textile wastewater treatment. This promising technology can alter the surface properties of textiles without having a significant effect on their bulk properties, leading to potential improvements to the scouring, de-sizing, dyeing, finishing, printing, and laminating processes among others. Drawing on an international team of contributors from industry as well as academia, this important book brings these innovative sustainable plasma treatments to textile and polymer scientists working in textile functionalization.
- Provides detailed technical descriptions of cutting-edge applications of plasma in nanotechnology, biotechnology, and other fields
- Describes the different kinds of plasma treatment equipment and compares their use for different effects
- Starts with overviews of basic information such as how to determine surface properties
Researchers in academia and industry interested in textile processing, Sustainability consultants in the textiles industry
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Series page
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction of plasma technology
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Atmospheric-pressure plasma
- 1.3. Low-pressure plasma (LPP)
- 1.4. Applications of plasma on textiles and polymers
- 1.5. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Comprehensive plasma-enhanced wool advancements: Cleaning, dyeing, and finishing
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Plasma process for wool fiber modifications
- 2.3. Cleaning and surface activation of wool fiber
- 2.4. Plasma application in dyeing process
- 2.5. The impact of plasma pretreatment in printing process
- 2.6. Finishing applications
- 2.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Recent advances in plasma modification of silk
- 3.1. Introduction to silk features and chemistry
- 3.2. Applications of silk fiber
- 3.3. Plasma and its benefits
- 3.4. Benefits of plasma for textile fibers
- 3.5. Modification of silk by plasma
- 3.6. Optimization of plasma for low-temperature dyeing of silk
- 3.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Recent advances in plasma modification of cotton
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Plasma modifications of cotton
- 4.3. Modification of cotton particle coatings by plasma
- 4.4. Desizing of cotton by plasma
- 4.5. Etching by plasma
- 4.6. Conclusions
- Chapter 5. Plasma treatment of other cellulosic and lignocellulosic fibers
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. Various configurations of plasma devices
- 5.3. Plasma modification of regenerated cellulosic fibers
- 5.4. Plasma modification of lignocellulosic fibers
- 5.5. The chemical mechanism of the action of plasma on cellulose fibers
- 5.6. Main characterization techniques and methods applicable to plasma-treated cellulosic fibers
- 5.7. Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Plasma application on polyamide and aramid fibers
- 6.1. Characteristics of polyamide fibers
- 6.2. Surface modification on polyamide fibers
- 6.3. Characteristics of aramid fibers
- Chapter 7. Plasma based functionalization of polyester
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Principle of plasma processes
- 7.3. Surface modification of polyester fibers by LTP treatments
- 7.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Polypropylene plasma treatments
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Overview of polypropylene cold plasma treatments
- 8.3. Areas of application
- 8.4. Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Plasma in biomedical applications
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. Types of plasma techniques
- 9.3. Application of plasma to biomaterials for biomedical applications
- 9.4. Conclusions
- Chapter 10. Plasma for advanced functionalization of textiles
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Plasma functionalization and coating of textiles
- 10.3. Review research activity
- 10.4. Conclusions
- Chapter 11. Plasma in textile wastewater treatment
- 11.1. Introduction
- 11.2. Textile wastewater: characterization and treatment methods
- 11.3. Plasma technology
- 11.4. Plasma discharge used in textile wastewater treatment: recent laboratory studies
- 11.5. Synergetic effect of plasma and oxidants/catalysts in the textile wastewater treatment
- 11.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 12. Plasma surface modification of textiles for application of natural dyes
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Modification of textile surface by radio frequency plasma with argon gas
- 12.3. Modification of textile surface by water vapor plasma and antimicrobial treatment with medicinal plant extracts
- 12.4. Conclusions
- Chapter 13. Positive impacts of plasma treatment on comfort properties of textile blends
- 13.1. Introduction
- 13.2. Plasma treatment for textile application
- 13.3. Clothing comfort
- 13.4. Plasma treatments for textile blends
- 13.5. Advancement of comfort textile
- 13.6. Effect of plasma gases on the properties of the material
- 13.7. Eco performance fabrics: when comfort meets sustainability
- 13.8. Summary
- Index
- No. of pages: 662
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 24, 2024
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443190797
- eBook ISBN: 9780443190803
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Shahid Ul Islam
Shahid Ul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He works at the interface of materials science and textile engineering, with an emphasis on the functionalization of textile and polymeric materials for use in different applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, IndiaAH
Aminoddin Haji
Aminoddin Haji has been an assistant Professor at Yazd University (YU), Iran since September 2018. Before joining YU, he was teaching at the Textile and Art department of Islamic Azad University, Birjand Branch for 15 years. His research interests include surface modification of textiles (specially plasma treatment), dyeing and nanofibers. He is a member of 1 editorial board of a textiles journal and member of the scientific committee of several international conferences in the field of textile engineering. He has published 7 book chapters, 65 papers in ISI-indexed journals and presented 55 papers in international conferences in several countries. He is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), - Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), Iranian Textile Association of Science and Technology, and Iranian carpet scientific association.
Affiliations and expertise
Textile Chemistry and Fiber Science Textile Engineering Department, Yazd University, IranRead Advances in Plasma Treatment of Textile Surfaces on ScienceDirect