Natural Fibres Drive New Research in Sustainable Textiles
By: Seshadri Ramkumar, Professor, Texas Tech University, USA
(Lubbock, USA, June 2025)—Cotton, hemp and natural fiber-based combinations are finding new applications.
Texas Tech University recently released a YouTube video highlighting the ongoing research on advanced materials involving natural fibers and blends.
Bunmi Olopade, a research scholar from Nigeria is looking at cotton for wipes that have antifungal properties that could applications in medical and hospitality sectors.
Sustainable functionalization using ionic gases offers new opportunities to impart high-performance characteristics to textiles. Mirza Khyum, graduate student from Bangladesh is looking into new applications for hemp and its blends.
Recently, research conducted by Dr. Faizur Rahman, who completed his PhD on the filtration efficiency of different filters such as automotive filters has shown that quality of manufacturing matters in developing high efficiency filters.
A video discussing these ongoing projects is given here: