Wool Fibers: Properties, Applications and Renewability
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Sustainable Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 44
Special Issue Editors
Interests: textile science; zero-waste management; wool application; textile structures; textile properties
Interests: wool; biodegradation; fiber structure; fiber morphology; polypropylene; crystallization; nucleating agents; pigment
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Dear Colleagues,
Until the 20th century, wool, especially sheep wool, was probably the most widespread textile raw material processed in large industrial centres and households worldwide. Wool textiles were useful and beautiful. The growth of the wool industry and its subsequent concentration, then competition from synthetic fibres and globalisation, have contributed to a decline in the economic importance of wool. Only the wool meeting the highest “industrial” quality standards, from large farms and sheep of a few breeds, is fully processed today. Other types of wool are underused and even treated as problematic waste.
Mankind today cannot afford to waste resources and litter the planet; so wool, as a renewable, biodegradable fibre, widespread in various latitudes, should be given a new opportunity. The many unique advantages of wool make it a valuable material for traditional and innovative applications. Wool products have successfully moved out of the sphere of clothing and residential interiors into technology, construction, vehicle engineering, medical technology, cosmetics, environmental engineering, agriculture, and into the wider world. The diverse uses of wool make it possible to manage its various qualities. Particularly noteworthy are the undervalued types of wool, such as coarse fibres, naturally coloured fibres, and both pre-consumer and post-consumer wool fibres.
The collection of articles entitled ‘Wool Fibers: Properties, Applications and Renewability’ is dedicated to research supporting the shortening of the wool supply chain, its rational and circular management, and environmentally friendly wool processing technologies. This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers in the following fields:
- Innovative use of non-standard wool;
- Shortening the wool supply chains;
- The use of pre-consumption and post-consumption wool;
- Properties of wool from locally reared sheep breeds: useful methods, wool parameters, classification and fibres application potential;
- Small-scale and flexible techniques for processing wool with non-standard parameters;
- Local wool in local business;
- Extending the wool value chain.
Dr. Katarzyna Kobiela-Mendrek
Prof. Dr. Jan Broda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- undervalued wool
- zero-waste management
- eco-friendly process
- small-scale production
- wool-collection management
- pre-consumer waste wool
- post-consumer wool
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