The Impact and Prospects of Green Chemistry for Textile Technology

In recent years, scientists have discovered new advantageous functions of textiles finished by using natural products such as natural colorants, biopolymers, polyphenols, enzymes and other plant extracts. Green chemistry approaches have been sought to improve existing properties and produce textile materials with a diverse range of practical benefits,

The Impact and Prospects of Green Chemistry for Textile Technology provides a review and summary of the role of green chemistry - including use of green agents and sustainable technologies - in different textile applications. The book systematically covers the history and chemistry of eco-friendly colorants, chitin, chitosan, cyclodextrin, biomordants, antimicrobial, UV protective, flame retardant, insect repellant textiles, and advanced pre- and post- treatment technologies including sonochemistry and plasma methods currently employed in functional modifications. The book also pays attention towards remediation of textile effluents using novel, sustainable and inexpensive adsorbents.

Written by high profile contributors with many years of experience in textile technology, this book gives engineers and materials scientists in the textile industry the information they need to effectively deploy these green technologies and processes – reducing consumption of toxic and hazardous chemicals, making processes more efficient, and exploring entirely new applications.

Introduces green chemistry and sustainable technologies, and explores their role in different textile applicationsExamines the use of renewable materials such as biopolymers, dyes and pigments, biomordants, polyphenols and plant extracts in functional finishing applicationsDeals with functional modification of textiles using state-of-the-art biotechnology and nanotechnology

1. Current Scenarios of sustainable chemistry in Textile Applications
2. Sustainable colorants
3. Metal mordants and Biomordants
4. Sustainable Cyclodextrin in Textile Applications
5. Chitin and Chitosan
6. Sustainable textile chemical processing using Enzymes
7. The Sonochemical Functionalization of Textiles
8. Non-thermal plasma: a promising green technology to improve environmental performance of textile Industries
9. Textile finishing with biomacromolecules: a low environmental impact approach in flame retardancy
10. Antimicrobial Textiles 
11. Insect repellent textiles using green and sustainable approaches
12. UV Protective Textiles
13. Treatment Technologies in Textile Industry Effluent
14. Application of chitosan derivatives as promising adsorbents for treatment of textile wastewater 
15. Recent Advances in Remediation of Synthetic Dyes from Wastewaters using Sustainable and Low Cost Adsorbent
16. Treatment of industrial dyes using chitosan-supported nanocomposite adsorbents