Nanofunctionalization of Textiles

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to this special issue on “Nanofunctionalization of Textiles”. Recently, there has been a considerable research interest in nanotechnology using nanoparticles due to their unique physical properties that mainly include size-dependent optical, magnetic, electronic, and catalytic properties. At the forefront of material science, inorganic nanoparticles such as metals, semiconductors, and metal oxides have led to some very important theoretical and practical advances for a wide of variety of applications in the field of information, energy, environmental, and medical technologies. Moreover, the recent combination of the disciplines of nanotechnology and biology has led to some very important theoretical and practical advances in both biology and nanoengineered materials. The scope of this Special Issue on nanotechnology applied to textiles includes not only nanoparticle coatings, which usually encompass most of the research in this field, but also new advanced technologies such as electrospinning, wet spinning, plasma, and hybrid bionanomaterials with applications in all sectors, including biomedical, food, agriculture, energy, and environment. In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Emerging microscale technologies for textiles;
• Fiber-based biosensors;
• Bionanotech fiber-based water treatment;
• Tissue engineering and drug delivery;
• Nanotextiles in medicine;
• Bionanotechnological textile applications in plants and agriculture;
• Smart medical materials and antimicrobial coatings;
• Coatings for protection and comfort;
• Biomimetic coatings;
• Memory polymer coatings;
• Self-cleaning processes;
• Self-healing coatings;
• Smart breathable coatings for textiles;
• Conductive polymer coatings;
• Photonic materials.

Dr. Andrea Zille
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. Textiles is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly 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 1200 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.