High Performance Textiles

High performance textiles are one of the most recent advance of the textile and clothing industry. With input from imenient reearchers in the field, this book contributes a critical overview of key advancement in the field. Chapters binding the utilization of high performance textiles in such areas as medicine, protective clothing, heat and fire protection, industrial filtration, geotextiles, civil engineering and sustainable energy applications. Also, included evaluation of novel surface modification using nano particles, supercritical fluid, laser, irradiation with electron beam and plasma technologies for a wide scope of high performance textiles.