Functional and Technical Textiles covers recent advances in technology, properties and performance of high-tech yarns and structures and their applications in different sectors of the smart and technical textile fields. Applications, including many that go beyond apparel, where high tech and functional structural fabrics are used as reinforcements for composites, medical implants and geotextiles are covered. The book also describes the latest technologies for producing versatile products for these diversified applications. Finally, the book makes a survey of the latest research in technical textiles and its various structures, properties and applications in composites, medical textiles, geotextiles, industrial textiles, and more.

1.Introduction to functional and technical textiles2.Advances in medical textiles3.Advances in ballistic protection4.Design of a military protective suit against biological agents5.Sustainable approach toward antibacterial textiles6.Advances in ultraviolet (UV) ray blocking textiles7.Advances in the water proof technologies in textiles8.Interactive smart textile fabrics9.Textile fabrics and ferrite-loaded composite materials for electromagnetic-shielding applications10.Progress in physiological textile sensors for biomedical applications11.Textile fibrous media for liquid filtration12.Textiles for heat generation13.Silica aerogel based high thermal insulation materials14.Moisture management and wicking behavior of textiles15.Use of piezoelectric polymers for smart textiles16.Textile materials for implantable medical devices17.Auxetic textiles18.Synthesis and application of pH-responsive polymer for hygienic application19.Lignocellulosic biowaste for composite applications20.Recent advances in the development of chromic textiles21.Comfort and fit of ballistic body armor22.Testing and evaluation of technical textiles23.Testing and evaluation of functional textiles24.Sustainability in functional and technical textiles