Leather, Textiles and Bio-Based Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the rapid development of a wide range of new materials with very different properties, materials such as leather, textiles made from natural fibers, and other bio-based materials remain indispensable because of their unique properties. These are materials that people use and touch almost every day. For these reasons, the processing of these materials and the production of products from them play a very important role in the world economy, and this situation can be expected to continue for a very long time.

Although leather, natural textiles, and other bio-based materials are very established and well-known subjects of research, new research is being carried out, with the results revealing the previously unknown potential of new treatments to give unexpected properties to the objects studied. Completely new alternative processing technologies are being developed. All this shows that the possibilities for research on these well-known objects are endless.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original contributions exploring the processing, properties, structures, and uses of bio-based materials for various purposes. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) process development, structural changes, mechanical characterization, exploitation properties, and analytical and numerical methods to model, simulate, and predict the behavioral properties of the materials and products produced.

The first volume, entitled "Leather, Textile and Bio-Based Materials: Production Processes, Environmental Impact and Life Cycle Assessment," attracted great interest from authors and readers. Therefore, we will continue to study this field by compiling a second volume of this Special Issue.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/materials/special_issues/leather_textile_bio_based_materials

Prof. Dr. Valeika Virgilijus
Guest Editor

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• leather processing
• collagen changes
• tanning
• application of enzymes
• wool
• textile functions
• natural fibres’ biocompatibility
• composites containing bio-based materials
• biodegradability of biomaterials
• hydrolysis of biomaterials
• life cycle assessment.