Perhaps surprisingly the earliest commercialized applications of nanotechnology are seen in lifestyle applications. Textile and cosmetics are among the first products to use nanomaterials. This overview discusses these and other examples of nanotechnology materials and technologies in lifestyle applications...

The aim of this whitepaper is to outline perspectives for deployment of smart textiles and wearable technologies in sports clothing and equipment and to indicate areas where integration of smart features may be used to support a brand image...

"The Fiber Year 2008/09" is the ninth issue to describe in detail developments in the world's manmade fiber, spun yarn and nonwovens industry. Its target is to provide a comprehensive picture on the textile industry. Statistical information is instrumental in achieving an overall impression and inevitable to disclose...

The home textiles market in India is growing with leaps and bounds and in the process has attracted the attention of foreign brands that have entered the Indian markets on their own or through joint ventures. This has happened due to the growing affluence levels of the Indian consumers who are becoming more and more demanding by asking for exquisite home textile fabrics...

Why are the roads inside the Infosys' campus so good and those outside are terrible? These are the beginnings of the recent much celebrated book, "Imagining India," by Infosys' co-founder Mr. Nandan Nilekani. This shows that the exponential growth in the information technology sector alone is not enough for developing India...

Over the past few decades, several biodegradable polyesters have been extensively studied for a wide variety of pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. The ester linkages of aliphatic and aliphatic-aromatic co-polyester can easily be cleaved by hydrolysis under alkaline, acid, or enzymatic catalysis...