Nanotechnology (NT), revolutionizing the world of advanced materials, is fast becoming an important business area for many companies in different range of industries. Among these, textile manufacturing seems to be actually the most thriving and promising sector offering high-specialized and performing materials. NTs could represent for European and US textile operators, in a globalized scenario, an excellent opportunity to develop next-generation textiles and to provide enhanced properties and new added-values to standardized and, by now, very cheap textile imported products, revitalizing, in this way, an old hi-labour sector in advanced post-industrial economies, no longer capable of price competition wars against lower-wage countries of Asia and Eastern Europe. In this paper, we'll provide a comprehensive assessment of some of the most important NT textile finishing applications. We'll deliberately exclude the textile nanofibers production technologies and the newer applications of NTs for "smart & intelligent" textiles, postponing their review to future papers.
”New-old” textiles by nanotechnologies: business opportunities for advanced economies
RUBERTI, Marcello;
2010-01-01
Abstract
Nanotechnology (NT), revolutionizing the world of advanced materials, is fast becoming an important business area for many companies in different range of industries. Among these, textile manufacturing seems to be actually the most thriving and promising sector offering high-specialized and performing materials. NTs could represent for European and US textile operators, in a globalized scenario, an excellent opportunity to develop next-generation textiles and to provide enhanced properties and new added-values to standardized and, by now, very cheap textile imported products, revitalizing, in this way, an old hi-labour sector in advanced post-industrial economies, no longer capable of price competition wars against lower-wage countries of Asia and Eastern Europe. In this paper, we'll provide a comprehensive assessment of some of the most important NT textile finishing applications. We'll deliberately exclude the textile nanofibers production technologies and the newer applications of NTs for "smart & intelligent" textiles, postponing their review to future papers.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
