New millennium fibers

Hardback  312 pp  ISBN 1855736012      £130.00

• keep up to date with the advances in fiber science
• explores new and exciting developments in fiber technology
• includes applications of new millennium fibers

Looking forward to the future it is clear that today€s narrow concept of fiber as a basic element for textiles, ropes and nets will become an outmoded notion. The emphasis will instead shift to new and exciting developments in fiber technology and their applications, exploring such fields as biomimetics, nanotechnology and biodegradability.

New millennium fibers describes and identifies the scope of high-tech fibers. The present status and prospects of the fiber/textile technology are discussed and the high performance fibers are reviewed from origin to future applications, including carbon fiber.The themes of the book are summarised with a discussion on health care and the environment.

As the 21st century progresses fibers will enter into more novel and unexpected applications. We are approaching the age of the wearable computer and organic electroluminescence wearable displays. New potential is open in the fields of car and aerospace industry, civil engineering, separation membranes using hollow fibers for artificial organs, biodegradable fiber for ecological conservation and fibers with biological functions.

This book explores the exciting roles that fibers will play in the future and will be essential reading for all of those in the textile and fashion industry involved in fiber development or use.

Contents

Searching the root of fibers

• The importance of fiber in human life
• What is high-tech fiber? Natural versus synthetic fiber
• Artificial fiber by biomimetics
• Definition of fibrous materials
• Fiber: characteristics and shapes
• Fibers as hierarchical structures
• What should we investigate in the field of fiber and textiles?
• Bibliography

The new frontier fibers?

• Enlargement of the frontier in a fiber competition age
• "Selection", "concentration" and "originality" development on a worldwide scale
• New fibers for the next generation have arrived
• The distinction of high-tech fiber, frontier fiber and new frontier fiber
• Key words for the near future
• How to develop new application fields
• New frontier fields now growing
• Bibliography

Superfibers

• Description of superfibers
• Development of superfiber in Europe, the United States and Japan
• Superfiber as a reinforcing material
• Frontiers of superfiber applications
• Nanofiber (carbon nanotube)
• High polyketone fiber
• Bibliography

Carbon fiber expands towards the twenty-first century

• PAN-based and pitch based carbon fiber lead the world
• A step of development of carbon fiber
• The future of PAN-based carbon fiber
• Bibliography

High function fiber

• Prospects of high function fiber development
• Sportswear using the high function fiber
• Comfort function fiber
• Biomimetic and intelligent fiber
• The new areas
• Bibliography

Frontier of health and comfort fibers

• Fiber for health
• Development of medical care materials to learn from "smart fiber"
• Development trend of comfortable fiber for health
• Trend to seek for cleanliness and comfortableness
• Fiber to guard environment and health
• Technical concentration to achieve comfort
• Bibliography

Polymer fibers for health and nutrition

• The concept and effects of dietary fiber
• Hydrocolloid fibers
• The main hydrocolloids
• Dietary fiber - in health and disease
• The appropriate molecular features to achieve
• Bibliography

Fibers in medical healthcare

• Nonwoven
• Alginate fibers
• Superabsorbent fibers
• Wound healing and polysaccharide fibers
• Hyaluronan - a new medical fiber
• Other fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering
• Collagen: medical applications
• Medical textiles
• Bibliography

Developments in nanofibers for the new millennium

• Background
• Nanotechnology, materials and nanofiber
• Creation of new industries
• Researches and global developments of nanofiber
• Further reading
• References

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