Advances in Plasma Treatment of Textile Surfaces

Shahid Ul Islam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities at Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India. Prior to joining Jamia, he was a Fulbright Scientist at the University of California Davis, United States. He works at the interface of materials science and textile engineering, with an emphasis on the functionalization of textile and polymeric materials for use in different applications. Aminoddin Haji has been an assistant Professor at Yazd University (YU), Iran since September 2018. Before joining YU, he was teaching at the Textile and Art department of Islamic Azad University, Birjand Branch for 15 years. His research interests include surface modification of textiles (specially plasma treatment), dyeing and nanofibers. He is a member of 1 editorial board of a textiles journal and member of the scientific committee of several international conferences in the field of textile engineering. He has published 7 book chapters, 65 papers in ISI-indexed journals and presented 55 papers in international conferences in several countries. He is a member of American Chemical Society (ACS), - Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), Iranian Textile Association of Science and Technology, and Iranian carpet scientific association.

• PrefaceShahid- ul-Islam and Aminoddin Haji1. Introduction of Plasma TechnologyAminoddin Haji2. Plasma modification of wool: From scouring to finishingHossein Barani and Aminoddin Haji3. Recent advances in plasma modification of silkShumaila Kiran I, Shazia Abrar, Sarosh Iqbal, Bushra Munir and Aitzaz Rasool4. Recent advances in plasma modification of cottonAazam Talebian and Shirin Nourbakhsh5. Plasma treatment of other cellulosic and lignocellulosic fibersAna Kramar, Bratislav Obradovic, Mirjana Kostic and Milorad Kuraica6. Plasma treatment of polyamide fibers (nylon, aramid)Zeynep Omerogullari Basyigit7. Plasma based functionalization of polyesterNéji LADHARI and Radhia Abd Jelil8. Polypropylene plasma treatmentsLilia Sabantina and Al Mamun9. Plasma in biomedical applicationsHülya KESİCİ GÜLER, Karuna Nambi Gowri and Martin W. King10. Plasma for advanced functionalization of textilesIon Razvan R. Radulescu, Emilia Visileanu, Razvan Scarlat, Lilioara Surdu, Ovidiu Iordache, Bogdana Mitu, Catalin Constantin, Veronica Satulu, Laurentiu Dinca and Cristian Morari11. Plasma in textile waste water treatmentMarta Fernandes, Rui Fernandes, Jorge Padrão, Liliana Melro, Cátia Alves, Rui Rodrigues, Ana Ribeiro and Andrea Zille12. Plasma surface modification of textile for application of natural dyesDragana Grujić13. Positive impacts of plasma treatment on comfort properties of textile blendsMusaddaq Azeem, Michal Petrů, Lubos Hes and Ivan Masin