Recent Advances in Textiles and Fibers

Dear Colleagues,

Textiles and fiber sectors employs millions of people worldwide. Recent technological advancement have also added new dimensions in these sectors. The newly developed technical textile and fiber materials have a wide range of applications – ranging from the clothes in your closet to parachutes.  

This special issue on “Recent Advances in Textiles and Fibers” focuses on state-of-the-art research on fibers, yarn, and fabrics in different technical textiles fields including agro-textiles, and construction textiles. This also includes clothing and footwear applications on or for textiles such as zipper and fasteners, geotextiles, interior textiles, industrial textiles, medical textiles, automotive and aerospace textiles, ecological protection textiles, packaging textiles, sports textiles, and protective textiles. We invite you to submit your research articles or reviews in these areas with special emphasis on multidisciplinary applications of science, engineering and technology.      

Dr. Sumit Mandal
Guest Editor

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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.