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Functional Polymer Fibers
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Functional Polymer Fibers

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2021) | Viewed by 4478

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jia-Horng Lin

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Department of Fiber and Composite Materials, Feng Chia University, Taichung 40768, Taiwan
Interests: biomaterials, nano-materials, green textiles, polymer hybrid composites, high performance polymer composites, and medical and health protection composites
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Prof. Dr. Ching-Wen Lou

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Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan
Interests: textile engineering, fibrous composites, functional textiles, high performance polymer composites, medical and health protection composites, bio-materials, nano-materials, and green textiles
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Prof. Dr. Ting‐Ting Li

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Innovation Platform of Intelligent and Energy-Saving Textiles, School of Textile Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
Interests: multi-functional polymer nanofilms
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Natural and synthetic compounds can be processed into polymer fibers by solvent spinning, melt spinning, gel spinning, and so on. Through appropriate processing, these polymer fibers or their products are used in aspects of textiles, transportation, protective, building, intelligence, medical, healthcare, and environment management. This Special Issue “Functional Polymer Fibers” seeks high-quality works and topics that realize the superior function performance by means of a physical or chemical process, deeply discuss the relations of the structure and property, and/or acquire advanced fabrication and testing technology for functional polymer fibers and their products.

Prof. Dr. Jia-Horng Lin
Prof. Dr. Ching-Wen Lou
Prof. Ting‐Ting Li
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Polymers is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Solvent spinning
  • Melt spinning
  • Natural fibers
  • Chemical fibers
  • Nonwoven
  • Woven fabrics
  • Braiding
  • Coating
  • Dyeing
  • Surface finishing
  • Plating

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Melt Spinning of Highly Stretchable, Electrically Conductive Filament Yarns
by Henriette Probst, Konrad Katzer, Andreas Nocke, Rico Hickmann, Martina Zimmermann and Chokri Cherif
Polymers 2021, 13(4), 590; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym13040590 - 16 Feb 2021
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Abstract
Electrically conductive fibers are required for various applications in modern textile technology, e.g., the manufacturing of smart textiles and fiber composite systems with textile-based sensor and actuator systems. According to the state of the art, fine copper wires, carbon rovings, or metallized filament [...] Read more.
Electrically conductive fibers are required for various applications in modern textile technology, e.g., the manufacturing of smart textiles and fiber composite systems with textile-based sensor and actuator systems. According to the state of the art, fine copper wires, carbon rovings, or metallized filament yarns, which offer very good electrical conductivity but low mechanical elongation capabilities, are primarily used for this purpose. However, for applications requiring highly flexible textile structures, as, for example, in the case of wearable smart textiles and fiber elastomer composites, the development of electrically conductive, elastic yarns is of great importance. Therefore, highly stretchable thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) was compounded with electrically conductive carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and subsequently melt spun. The melt spinning technology had to be modified for the processing of highly viscous TPU–CNT compounds with fill levels of up to 6 wt.% CNT. The optimal configuration was achieved at a CNT content of 5 wt.%, providing an electrical resistance of 110 Ωcm and an elongation at break of 400%. Full article
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