Eva Bou-Belda

• Researcher at Polytechnic University of Valencia

The innovative integration of phase change materials (PCMs) into textiles through microencapsulation presents a transformative approach to developing thermally regulated fabrics. This study explores the synthesis and characterization of microcapsules containing a coconut oil core and an ethylcellulose shell, and their application on cotton fabrics...

Thermal comfort is defined as the user's sensation of thermal well-being. This sensation can be modified by extreme environmental conditions changing the body temperature of the user. Different mechanisms, the thermoregulatory system itself or an external textile system, are required to allow the body to return to their state of well-being. A cooli...

Clays are considered great nanoadsorbents for many materials, including textile dyes. The use of these materials for cleaning textile wastewater is well known; however, it is not at all common to find applications for the hybrid materials formed from the clay and dye. In this work, a dye-loaded clay material was used to make new dye baths and colou...

La búsqueda de alternativas más sostenibles y menos contaminantes para la industria textil ha llevado a explorar el uso de pigmentos naturales y orgánicos para el teñido de tejidos. El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la formación de nanopigmentos con extracto de achiote para su uso en el teñido de algodón 100%. El método científico utili...

Natural dyes, obtained from plants, insects/animals, and minerals, are renewable and sustainable bioresource products with minimum environmental impact. However, there are still many issues to solve related to natural dyes; consequently, synthetic dyes are still wildly used. Natural dyes have a low affinity towards the substrate cotton, so a soluti...

Three-dimensional printing technology is being increasingly applied in a multitude of sectors. However, this technology is not generally applied in the same way as in other sectors, possibly due to the difficulty of adhesion between the polymer and the textile substrate. A textile garment is subjected to wear and tear during its lifetime, and a low...

Textile effluents are among the most polluting industrial effluents in the world. Textile finishing processes, especially dyeing, discharge large quantities of waste that is difficult to treat, such as dyes. By recovering this material from the water, in addition to cleaning and the possibility of reusing the water, there is the opportunity to reus...

Throughout history, mineral clays have had a multitude of applications. With recent developments in the textile industry, they have been used for their antimicrobial properties. As a promising phyllosilicate with a negative layer charge, montmorillonite (MMT) was used in this work to treat cotton fabric to evaluate its ability to generate negative...

Sustainability in the textile industry is a challenge with an imminent need to be tackled. One approach can be focused on replacing fossil-based dyes with renewable and less polluting alternatives. In this sense, this study focuses on validating the suitability of an innovative natural-based blue dye, phycocyanin, sourced from Spirulina platensis m...

Growing environmental conservation concerns have led researchers to seek the means to treat and recover wastewater. The textile industry dumps vast quantities of wastewater from textile dyes. By means of clays, dye waste can be separated and reused for other industrial processes. Clay absorption varies depending on the type of dye employed because...

The textile processing industry has imposed strict ecological and economic restrictions on the chemicals used, including bans on certain consumer goods containing synthetic agents which are posing challenges to sustainability issues [1, 2]. The worldwide demand for the use of environmentally friendly products in the textile industry is nowadays of...

Synthetic polymers have become essential in our life, nevertheless, the high production and the low recycling around the world have caused serious problems of contamination in soil and water. In addition, its fragmentation into microplastics in environmental conditions has exacerbated the ecological problems due to its possible ingestion by organis...

Cover factor is defined as the ratio of the area covered by yarns to the total area of the fabric. This fabric’s characteristic is a basic construction parameter of woven cloth related to its end-use behaviour. Different authors are focused on studying the effect of the cover factor fabric on different properties of the fabric, like air permeabilit...

Knife-coating can confer new properties on different textile substrates efficiently by integrating various compounds into the coating paste. Graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) is one of the most used elements for the functionalization of fabrics in recent years, providing electrical and thermal conductivity to fabrics, later used to develop products such...

The scientific community is continuously developing new methods for the recovery and purification of water, since the precious resources of our planet are increasingly scarce and we must work to save and clean our waters. One of the methods used is the use of adsorbent and absorbent materials that remove from the water those substances that are har...

Recently, natural dyes are becoming more important because they are considered environmentally friendly. However, the reduction in pollution is not only the main aspect that makes them interesting. New properties such antibacterial, flame retardancy, etc., can be added to the material dyed with them. In this work we consider different teas, the red...

Wastewater recovery is one of the most pressing contaminant-related subjects in the textile industry. Many cleaning and recovery techniques have been applied in recent decades, from physical separation to chemical separation. This work reviews textile wastewater recovery by focusing on natural or synthetic nanoclays in order to compare their capabi...

The work is framed within Printed Electronics, an emerging technology for the manufacture of electronic products. Among the different printing methods, the roll-to-roll flexography technique is used because it allows continuous manufacturing and high productivity at low cost. Nevertheless, the incorporation of the flexography printing technique in...

Coating is a technique widely used in the textile industry for different purposes, mainly in coloring and functional finishes. Graphene is usually applied to fabrics using coating techniques to provide such fabrics with properties like thermal or electrical conductivity. All woven fabrics have peaks and valleys in their structure, generated by the...

Textile materials used without any other structures show low absorption throughout the operating frequency range, and they are currently used for interior decoration. These fabrics can play an important role in the development of acoustic materials considering folding techniques in the design phase. The folding of a cotton fabric not only affects t...

The work is framed within Printed Electronics, an emerging technology for the manufacture of electronic products. Among the different printing methods, the roll-to-roll flexography technique is used because it allows continuous manufacturing and high productivity at low cost. Apart from the process parameters, the ink and the substrate properties a...

Old textiles represent important samples of the mobile cultural heritage, having implications on the social and spirituallife of each population. In order to keep them in the best condition, it is necessary to implement methods to preventdamages, but also to rehabilitate and clean the already affected fabrics. In the case of textiles that need to b...

Old textiles represent important samples of the mobile cultural heritage, having implications on the social and spirituallife of each population. In order to keep them in the best condition, it is necessary to implement methods to preventdamages, but also to rehabilitate and clean the already affected fabrics. In the case of textiles that need to b...

Nature, including the oceans, is polluted by the presence of plastics. Different products can be found, including plastic bottles, toys, toothpaste tubes, fruit meshes, etc. Small pieces of plastics, known as microplastics, have been found in the oceans and there is concern that their impact is increasing. Some of those microplastics are considered...

Thermal management is a critical factor in several areas, such as architecture, computing, and transportation. Improving thermal regulation effectiveness is a challenging materials engineers. New materials can be used as thermoregulators sucha as graphene or Phase Change Materials (PCM). Textile engineering is also concerned and researchers are dev...

Concern regarding the environment is increasing day by day. Industrialized countries are aware of the problem that waste creates and are focusing efforts toward solving it by recycling and reusing different kinds of waste. Posidonia oceanica is a seagrass species endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, which creates tons of fiber waste that accumulates a...

Anciently fibers were dyed with natural dyes. Synthetic dyes arise from the development of chemical industry and gradually were stablished as the common dyes for textiles or other industries. Nowadays environmental issues are a serious concern and are dealing into new studies about natural dyes in order to reduce pollution from dyeing industry. Ann...

Anciently fibers were dyed with natural dyes. Synthetic dyes arise from the development of chemical industry and gradually were stablished as the common dyes for textiles or other industries. Nowadays environmental issues are a serious concern and are dealing into new studies about natural dyes in order to reduce pollution from dyeing industry. Ann...

Electrochemical polymerization is known to be a suitable route to obtain conducting polymer-carbon composites uniformly covering the carbon support. In this work, we report the application of a filter-press electrochemical cell to polymerize polyaniline (PAni) on the surface of large-sized activated carbon cloth (ACC) by simple galvanostatic electr...

Historically, fabrics were considered as a source of warmth and protection against weather conditions. Nowadays, fabrics can be converted into smart textiles and through this process new properties are conferred to them. For that purpose, microcapsules can play an important role in that they can be used within many application areas including medic...

Cotton fabrics are used in multiple applications consequently, are susceptible to treatments for its functionalization. Microcapsules interest is increasing among the industry field as they allow to incorporate multiple functions to textiles. The finishing treatments that incorporate microcapsules contain in their formulations binding agents in ord...

Chitosan is used in a wide range of applications due to its intrinsic properties. Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained from chitin and among their most important aspects highlights its bonding with cotton and its antibacterial properties. In this study two different molecular weight chitosan are used in the dyeing process of cotton with black tea to e...

Nowadays the majority of textile industries are not able to characterize or to study the process of adhering the microcapsule to the fibre's surface. There are various industrial processes to apply PCM's microcapsules, but determining optimal amounts of products, temperature, conditions and other process variables are an important challenge for the...

The use of orange oil presents as an ecological alternative to chemicals, attracting the attention of the scientific community to the development of eco-friendly antimicrobials. The microencapsulation technology has been used for the application of orange oil to textiles, being an economically viable, fast and efficient method by combining core and...

In this paper, the possibility of reusing textile effluents for new dyeing baths has been investigated. For this purpose, different trichromies using Direct Red 80, Direct Blue 106, and Direct Yellow 98 on cotton have been used. Effluents have been treated by means of a photo-Fenton process at pH 5. Addition of humic-like substances isolated form u...

Recently, natural dyes are becoming more important because they are considered environmentally friendly. However, the reduction in pollution is not only the main aspect that makes them interesting. New properties such antibacterial, sun protection, etc., can be added to the material dyed with them. In this work we consider different teas, the red o...

Cotton treated with chitosan has many positive functionalities such as antimicrobial effect. Some authors have demonstrated that functional groups of chitosan can react with functional groups of cellulose. However, it is necessary to apply high temperatures to carry this reaction out. Cellulose is degraded by heat and the degradation involves oxida...

Microencapsulation is a process in which tiny drops of an active material (core substance) are surrounded by a shell to give small capsules. There are many systems to achieve active material dispersion, which is the first step in obtaining microcapsules. However, emulsion is the most used in different applications. In this work the effect of the am...

Microcapsules can be added to fabric in industrial processes; however, they have not been widely spread among industrial companies. In this study, we suggest the possibility of reloading microcapsules onto a fabric while clothes are washed. The effectiveness of different resins when microcapsules are applied in washing machine during domestic laund...

In order to apply finishing particles onto fabrics, several methods such as, padding, bath exhaustion, spraying and foaming can be used. In this research, spray treatment is compared to padding when applying TiO2 nanoparticles onto textiles. Cotton fabric surfaces were observed by scanning electron microscopy and characterized by Fourier Transform...

Shrinkage and wrinkling are the major undesirable properties of cotton fabric. Those fibers are generally treated with crosslinking agents to further provide new properties to cotton fabric such as durable press property. Generally, in a cross-linked cotton fabric, cellulose chains are bridged across through chemical reaction with certain compounds...

Cotton fabrics are used in multiple applications consequently, are susceptible to treatments for its functionalization. Microcapsules interest is increasing among the industry field as they allow to incorporate multiple functions to textiles. The finishing treatments that incorporate microcapsules contain in their formulations binding agents in ord...

Cellulosic fibers are well known because of some properties such as confort when used as fibers in cloths. However, some disadvanteges can be observed such as lack of dimensional stability and crease resistance. In order to minimise those properties some finishing treatments as crosslinking are used. A crosslinking agent widely used is dimetildihyd...