Description: Unfold the Future with findings from the 20th AUTEX. In the textile industrial sector, fibrous materials are more and more important and omnipresent, and AUTEX was the platform to collect the state-of-the-art contributions related to textiles, from materials to technology, from design to merchandising, from education to products, from sustainability to a circular economy, thus revealing and unfolding the future of this industrial sector for readers. The conference took place on September 5-9, 2021, in Portugal, and is recognized as a reference among the textile scientific community gathering a large number of researchers every year.

Textile Materials

Edited by: Fernando B.N. Ferreira, Ana Maria Rocha, Andrea Zille, António Dinis Marques and Raul Fangueiro

Online since: June 2022

Description:

The research results and real engineering developments in the field of modern technical textiles are presented to readers in this contribution. Smart textile, specific features of fabrics based on conductive polymers, use of special yarn coating for functionalisation of knitted fabric, the improvement of the textile thermal isolation properties, and composite reinforcing by textile materials are some topics of this book.