Short description:

Ideal for scientists using natural and synthetic fibers to innovate products and technologies, this book compiles key advances on major fibers and their uses from the last decade. The Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition contains new material on rayon, acetate, silk, polypropylene, polyamide, and polyester, including new data and insights into structure-property relationships of fibers. The authors highlight a new chapter on Kevlar and Nomex and a renovated chapter on cotton and cellulose science and technology. Each chapter encompasses definitions, morphology, and fine structure; properties, testing, processing methods, and equipment; and the conversions into marketable products.

Long description:

The Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition provides complete coverage of scientific and technological principles for all major natural and synthetic fibers. Incorporating new scientific techniques, instruments, characterization, and processing methods, the book features important technological advances from the past decade, particularly in fiber production and novel applications. It contains the latest data and insight into the chemistry and structural properties made possible by these advances.

Authored by leading experts in the field of fiber science, most chapters in this third edition of a bestseller are either new or extensively updated. Chapters on synthetic fibers detail their formation from monomers, while those on natural fibers cover extraction and purification methods. Each chapter encompasses definitions, morphology, and fine structure; properties, testing, processing methods, and equipment; and the conversion into marketable products. Taking into account the recent expansion and diversification of markets for various fibers, this book also offers a solid foundation in the principles used for developing new fibers, including biologically and electronically active fibers.

The Handbook of Fiber Chemistry, Third Edition offers a better understanding of the structure?property relationships of fibers and fiber-related phenomena. It is an ideal volume for scientists, technologists, and engineers working to develop novel and innovative products and technologies using natural and synthetic fibers.

?? provides complete coverage of scientific and technological principles for all major natural and synthetic fibers. Incorporating new scientific techniques, instruments, characterization, and processing methods, the book features important technological advances from the past decade, particularly in fiber production and novel applications. It contains the latest data and insight into the chemistry and structural properties made possible by these advances. Authored by leading experts in the field of fiber science, most chapters in this third edition are either new or extensively updated. ? this book also offers a solid foundation in the principles used for developing new fibers, including biologically and electronically active fibers.  ?
? In Anticancer Research, Vol. 27, No. 3B, May/June 2007

Table of Contents:

Polyester Fibers. Polyamide Fibers. Polypropylene Fibers. Vinyl Fibers. Wool and Related Mammalian Fibers. Silk. Jute and Kenaf. Other Long Vegetable Fibers: Abaca, Banana, Sisal, Henequen, Flax, Ramie, Hemp, Sunn, and Coir. Cotton Fibers. Regenerated Cellulose Fibers. Cellulose Acetate and Triacetate Fibers. Acrylic Fibers. Aramide Fibers.