Hosne Ara Begum

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Head of Faculty at Bangladesh University of Textiles

Stretch-denim is a unique, trendy, and sturdy fabric produced with coarser cotton yarns requiring high consumption of cotton fiber. With the increasing expenses of cotton and the adverse ecological effects linked to its cultivation, it became necessary to investigate an alternative fiber. In this context, a novel elastic jute yarn was created by in...

Nanocellulose, especially originating from a natural source, has already shown immense potential to be considered in various fields, namely packaging, papermaking, composites, biomedical engineering, flame retardant, and thermal insulating materials, etc. due to its environmental friendliness and novel functionalities. Thus, a thorough characteriza...

Stretch-denim is a unique, trendy, and sturdy fabric produced with coarser cotton yarns requiring high consumption of cotton fiber. With the increasing expenses of cotton and the adverse ecological effects linked to its cultivation, it became necessary to investigate an alternative fiber. Jute, despite being a low-cost, biodegradable and sustainabl...

Jute is the golden fiber of Bangladesh. It is a natural composite fiber. The technical length of jute fiber is not fixed. It varies because of its mesh structure. In breaker carding machine, the fibers are split up and break down. After the breaker carding machine, it is quite difficult to ensure the actual length of splitted jute fiber. There is n...

Spinning represents the foundational step in textile manufacturing, with yarn quality significantly influencing subsequent processes. Consequently, enhancing yarn quality remains a primary concern for spinners. Of various spinning techniques, ring spinning stands out for its blend of productivity and quality. The final ring yarn is produced by the...

Riding on the journey of a sustainable world it is very crucial to extend the usage of natural cellulosic fiber from renewable sources. Due to their numerous applications and eco-friendly behavior, natural cellulosic fibers are in greater demand every day. In this article a new natural fiber extracted from the creepers of Mikania micrantha with the...

The ribbon retting method has been developed as a remedy for the issues associated with the conventional water retting method. But this method has not yet gained popularity among jute growers due to the unavailability of catalyst, inadequate training and lack of interest of farmers. The study deals with the improvement of the existing ribbon rettin...

Gypsum plasterboards are widely used in interior decoration like false ceilings, wall partitioning etc. The main component of this plasterboard is gypsum, which is a mineral material. These boards contain poor mechanical strength with lower durability. The addition of natural fibres in these plasterboards can be useful to achieve better mechanical...

The textile sector is among the leading industries globally in terms of releasing pollutants and producing waste. Despite being reusable, many wastes are squandered by disposing to landfills or incineration, creating a serious environmental threat. Because the cost of raw materials makes up a significant portion of the total product cost, manufactu...

Indigo dyes and Sulphur dyes are measured as very fashionable for clothes as they're having sensible overall fastness properties. Application of Indigo dyes and Sulphur dyes needs an awfully concentration of Caustic soda in the time of pretreatment process. The concentration of Caustic soda plays an important role in denim dyeing. Controlling the c...

Fibers are the main raw materials in the textile industry. Now-a-days various types of fibers are available around the world, but all fibers are not textile fibers. Because for being textile fibers, the fibers must have some particular physical and chemical properties. The length of natural fiber plays an important role both in the spinning process...

Recently, the consumption of core-spun yarn is increasing owing to its growing application in functional textiles. In a core-spun yarn, filaments as a core material are being used to provide functional properties, while natural fibers as a cover material are being used to provide surface physical properties and a natural outlook. In this study, jut...

Biodegradable composite materials are getting popular day by day for creating a sustainable environment. The focus of this article is to introduce spinning mill wastage (seeds, short fibers, foreign materials etc.) as reinforced material with biodegradable matrix that is polylactic acid for comparing its property as a replacement of expended polyst...

Today, aerodynamic compact spinning is the most widely used compact spinning method in which the vacuum (negative pressure airflow) is generated to compact the fibre strands. Different manufacturers use different vacuum generation systems, which can be divided into the following-a central fan system with combined duct and independent duct and a mul...

The emulsion is an essential part of jute processing and batching oil plays a vital role in the preparation of the emulsion. The making of five different emulsions was varying Rice Bran Oil (RBO) and glycerin percentage where other ingredients were kept constant but one emulsion was prepared only using Jute Batching Oil (JBO) with same composition...

: The economy of Bangladesh is largely depending on textile and garments industries at this moment. In this industry the overall demand of quality and cost reduction is increasing constantly along with steadily growing production capacities. For these reasons backward linkage industry like spinning plays a vital role for sustainable textile product...

Microfiber leather is a type of synthetic leather made up of a high-grade polyurethane resin and microfiber bundles that resemble the microscopic characteristics of natural leather. Microfiber has benefited from its smaller diameter, which is similar to that of real leather fibrils. Microfibers have received a lot of focus and are frequently employ...

This book presents reviews on the application of the technology for crop improvement towards food and nutrition security, and research status on mutation breeding and associated biotechnologies in both seed crops and vegetatively propagated crops. It also presents perspectives on the significance of next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics in...

Functional polymeric micro/nanofibers have gained considerable interest as promising materials for the structures that are potentially beneficial in lot of application areas as they possess excellent characteristics such as large surface-area-to-volume ratio, incredibly small pore dimensions etc. Microfluidic developments have currently shown a hug...

Functional polymeric micro/nanofibers have gained considerable interest as promising materials for the structures that are potentially beneficial in lot of application areas as they possess excellent characteristics such as large surface-area-to-volume ratio, incredibly small pore dimensions etc. Microfluidic developments have currently shown a hug...

The mechanical behaviour of auxetic materials and structures is the most distinctive characteristic, which differs from that of conventional engineering materials due to the negative Poisson’s ratio. Auxetic materials have the fascinating feature of widening when stretched and contracting when compressed. In recent times, the research of auxetic ma...

Sustainability is an area which is gathering more and more attention in nowadays society. But a standardized definition of sustainability and how to quantify it is still a work in progress. Especially, the textile industry has drawn major negative headlines in the past regarding working conditions in the least developed countries, pollution and was...

The demand for natural fibers has always been high due to their unique characteristics like strength, lightweight, availability, bio-degradability, etc. In every phase of life, from clothing to technical textiles, natural fibers are used. Water absorption of fibers is considered really important in many aspects, e.g., Sportech, Medtech, Geotech, et...

Bangla white D (BWD) grade jute fiber and Polypropylene of linear density 6 denier were blended at 60:40, 70:30; 80:20 and 100% jute yarn of 8lbs/spyndle were produced. Mixing of softened jute fiber and tufts of polypropylene were blended at feed sheet of the Breaker card machine. Changes in yarn characteristics have been studied at different blend...

The present study depicts the formation and characterization of electrospun nanofibrous mat generated from the mixture of poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and Mikania Micrantha extract to incorporate the inherent medicinal properties of this natural herb for biomedical application. The nano mats were produced by the solution electrospinning technique wit...

Being concerned with the growth and sustainability of the jute industry of Bangladesh, the machinery modifications deserves higher priority. In this work, it is desired to perform a modification of the apron draft spinning frame to improve the jute yarn quality. However, the existing drawing pressing roller (Diameter=70 mm & Durometer hardness = 96...

Nowadays, cuprammonium rayon is a highly valued cellulosic fiber in the textile industry. Here, rayon material is produced by the regeneration of cellulose through the cuprammonium process. Pure cotton droppings, CVC cotton droppings and White garments cutting room wastage contains significant amounts of cellulose and it can be used to produce rayo...

In the present study, and attempt has been made to regenerate cellulose from fully cotton-based textile and apparel wastage like fabric scraps from a garment factory and cotton fiber wastage from spinning mills. All of the wastage materials were 100% cotton. These wastages were firstly dissolved in a Schweizer's solution, until a viscous solution w...

Betel nut is one of the important fruits cultivated in tropical parts of the world. It generates a huge quantity of husk, which is a source of areca fiber. Both fine and coarse fibers are available in the husk. Different properties of fine areca fiber have been analyzed for qualifying its ability to convert into spun yarn. Fine areca fiber has good...

In this study, the mechanical properties of the composites made of areca fibers as reinforcing agent with polyester matrix were evaluated. Both untreated and treated (mercerized) fibers were used to fabricate composites and the mechanical properties such as tensile strength (TS), tensile modulus (TM), flexural strength (FS), flexural modulus (FM) a...

The cardinal objective of blending is to combine fibers which emphasizes good quality and minimizes poor quality. Jute is a natural fiber popularly known as the golden fiber of Bangladesh. It is one of the cheapest and strongest natural fibers and is considered the fiber for the future. Polyester is a manufactured product which tends to be very res...

The jute fibre based composite materials have remarkable advantages of economic and environmental aspects such as low cost, low density, high strength to weight ratio and environmentally friendly. The study was focused on the composites that were prepared using unsaturated polyester as matrix and jute fibre as reinforcement by hand lay-up technique...

Banana is a very popular fruit due to its low price and is used both as vegetable and as a dessert fruit. Banana plant has pseudo stems which is the major source of a natural fiber. So the purpose of this project has been to investigate the chemical resistance properties and tested against various chemicals with their tensile strength value. The Ba...

The paper presents a method, which applied to the ring of the ring spinning machine will improve its productivity. Through the system vibration is applied on the ring-traveller, which has effects on the centrifugal force of the traveller and helps the traveller to rotate around ring with intermittent contact. The effect of vibration on yarn tension...