Witness developments in textile nanotechnology at ITMA 2007

05 Dec '06

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The International Textile Machinery Exhibition ITMA 2007, which will take place in Munich from 13 to 20 September 2007, has the main theme of a “Place for Innovation”. A current example of this is nanotechnology, a technology of the future that also enables new properties and saving potential for textiles and clothing, for example in materials and energy costs.

Nanotechnology describes the production and use of structures in systematic arrangement of nanoparticles with a dimension or production tolerance below 100 nanometers.

New functions and properties for improving existing products and application options as well as for developing new ones result simply from the nanoscalability of the system components. Materials have different properties in nanometer scale, which are used in nanotechnology.

Numerous multifunctional nanotex developments have been launched on the market in the textile industry in the meantime.

For example, nanotechnology enables extremely high-insulation thermal protection clothing or self-cleaning textile surfaces, from which even substances such as ketchup or red wine drip off. Thanks to the link of textile structures with miniaturised electronic components, smart clothes can be produced that perceive environmental conditions and react to them.

A Japanese fibre manufacturer, for example, has developed a patented process , with which the properties of top quality merino wool can be achieved on polyester fibres.

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