The Wool Handbook: Morphology, Structure, Property and Applications explores the fundamental aspects of wool fibers as well as traditional and novel applications of wool in areas including polymer composites and technical textiles. Apart from textiles and garments, wool has long been used for various diversified applications due to its unique material properties. Wool is inherently fire resistant, antimicrobial, flexible and antibacterial, and as a natural material, it can be used to create environmentally sustainable products. This book explains basic and advanced topics related to wool fibers, from shearing to marketing, drawing on academic and industrial research from a range of subjects. Providing statistics, processing methods, and testing and characterization techniques for wool fiber, this book will help readers to use wool fibers to find new applications and solutions. - Provides advanced testing methods to explore the material characteristics of wool - Includes the latest industrial methods for physical and chemical processing of wool - Presents case studies on how wool fibers have been made into successful bio-based composite and textile products

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Technology & Engineering

Cover
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
About the series
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Chapter 1 : Introduction to wool fiber technology: a brief introduction and its processing technology
Chapter 2 : Wool production steps and global trade with recent statistics
Chapter 3 : Identification of Australian merino wool
Chapter 4 : Preprocessing of wool fibers
Chapter 5 : Mechanical finishing of wool for improved property and functionality
Chapter 6 : Wool dyeing
Chapter 7 : Functional finishing of wool
Chapter 8 : Morphology and chemical structure of a wool fiber
Chapter 9 : Quality evaluation of wool: methods of evaluation of quality of wool, parameters, and important standards
Chapter 10 : Chemical and physical properties of wool
Chapter 11 : Physical and chemical modification of wool
Chapter 12 : Morphological studies using microscopic techniques: advanced microscopic studies in wool
Chapter 13 : Spectroscopic studies on wool fibers
Chapter 14 : Thermal properties of wool: thermal degradation studies and fire-retardant properties
Chapter 15 : Sustainable moth repellent finishing for wool
Chapter 16 : Microbial attack and prevention methods: microbial attack on wool fiber, causes, and remedies
Chapter 17 : Antishrink finishing of woolens: shrink-resist treatment on woolens using various physical and chemical methods
Chapter 18 : Sustainability, biodegradability and life cycle analysis of wool
Chapter 19 : The use of wool fiber in technical textiles and recent developments
Chapter 20 : Wool in composites: wool fiber as a component in biocomposites
Chapter 21 : Acoustic properties of wool: sound insulation properties of wool fiber
Chapter 22 : Keratin extraction and its application: extraction of wool keratin and application in diversified fields
Chapter 23 : Blending of wool with other fibers: mixing of wool with other natural/synthetic fibers for different applications
Chapter 24 : Recycling of wool: making wool more sustainable
Chapter 25 : By-products during processing of fiber and their use: generation of by-products during wool processing and their utilization
Chapter 26 : Prospects of wool and woolen products
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