2. New technologies for textile functionalization

Through the application of a new technologies as an emerging tool for improving textile performance and increase its added value, learners will be learned about specific functional properties of textiles as self-cleaning, super-hydrophobic, antimicrobial, flame retardant, etc. which are results of functionalization of textiles using such innovative tecnologies.

                                                   Direction of development of functional textiles

Fig. 2.0 Analysis of Research Fronts in Scientific Publications on “Functional Textiles” 1989–2012 (Depicted are 8931 recorded articles). Arrows indicate the dynamic of research activity over the last years: green arrows indicate that a topic is increasing, red arrows that a topic is decreasing or stable. The graph was drawn up by AIT using BibTechMon™.