Nanotechnology Meets Modern Textile

摘要

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).