Nanotechnology Meets Modern Textile

Ji-Huan He, Guest Editor

National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Engineering, Soochow University, 199 Ren-ai Road, Suzhou 215123, China

Recent advances in nanotechnology have made it possible for modern textile to fabricate

various fabrics with nanostructures, enabling the fabrics to have plenty of excellent and fantastic

properties such as radiation protection and admirable thermal conductivity. The first seven articles

of this issue focus on fabrication of nanofibers.

The classical technology for nanofiber fabrication is the electrospinning, however, the

technology has some intrinsic shortcomings blocking its wide industrial applications [1]. Some

effective alternative approaches have appeared, for example, the melt splitting process (see paper by

L.L. Wu, Y.L. Cheng, T. Chen ), the vibration-electrospinning (see paper by J. Qiang, Y.Q. Wan,

L.N. Yang, Q.Q. Cao ), and the bubble electrospinning (see paper by H.Y. Kong, J.H. He ). Fabrics

with nanostructures always exhibit remarkable waterproof and/or breathable performances [2,3]. A

theory is successfully proposed to elucidate the highly selective adsorption/repulsion of nano

materials [4,5]. Fractal geometry [6] and differential-difference model (see paper by S. Zhang, Q.A.

Zong, Q. Gao, D. Liu ) are useful mathematical tools in modeling various phenomena, and a simple

mathematical analysis using mass conservation and Coulomb force can reveal the hidden principle

for fabrication of nanoporous materials (see paper by J.H. He, L. Xu, L. Wang, L.F. Mo).

Included herein is a collection of original refereed research papers by well established

researchers in the field of textile engineering. We hope that this issue will prove to be a timely and

valuable reference for researchers in this area. Special thanks go to the referees for their valuable

work. I here thank Professor Stathis Meletis, the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nano Research, for

providing us with the opportunity to produce this issue on this exciting new nanotechnologies for

modern textile.

References

[1] J.H. He, H.Y. Kong, R.R. Yang, et al.: Review on fiber morphology obtained bu bubble

electrospinning and blown bubble spinning, Therm. Sci., 16(5) (2012), 1263 - 1279

[2] M. Majumder, N. Chopra, R. Andrews, B.J. Hinds, Nanoscale hydrodynamics: enhanced flow

in carbon nanotubes, Nature. 438(2005), 44

[3] J. Fan, J. H. He, Biomimic design of multi-scale fabric with efficient heat transfer property,

Therm. Sci., 16(2012), 1349-1352

[4] H.Y. Kong, F.J. Liu, J.H. He, R.X. Chen, L. Wang, Highly Selective Adsorption of Plants’

Leaves on Nanoparticles, Journal of Nano Research, 22 (2013) pp 71-84

[5] R.X. Chen, J.H. He, H.Y. Kong, Waterproof and dustproof of wild silk: A theoretical

explanation, Journal of Nano Research, 22 (2013) pp 61-63

[6] R.X. Chen, F.J. Liu, J.H. He, J.Fan, Silk Cocoon: "Emperor's new clothes" for pupa: fractal

nano-hydrodynamical approach, Journal of Nano Research, 22, 65-70(2013)

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