The phrase "functional fabric" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe any type of fabric that serves a specific purpose, such as a technical fabric that is water-repellent or a lightweight fabric that is breathable. For example, "This lightweight and functional fabric is perfect for running in the rain."
And so, inevitably, the former has moved on to uphold the values of anything and everything that is kitsch next season, from Lurex to bugle beads, while the latter is more interested in strictly functional fabrics, eye-popping block colour and a particularly fetching, not to mention quite witty, banana print.
These functional fabrics mean that clothes won't necessarily just be clothes anymore.
Advances in textile technology, computer engineering, and materials science are promoting a new breed of functional fabrics.
Orderly aligned polymer nanofibers can facilitate the technological advancement of applications such as gas sensors, functional fabrics, biological and medical engineering, water and air purification filters, fuel cell membranes, ultra-speed fiber optics, and electronics.
It remains a great challenge to prepare multi-functional fabrics using a low-cost and scalable method with fluorine-free materials.
The functional silk fabric deposited with 19.5 wt% rGO was designed into a fire-resistant conductor that kept conducting even after 60 s of combustion and can be applied in the fire-fighting field.
Large-scale and functional silk fabrics were prepared by depositing synthetic graphene oxide (GO) hydrosol onto fabrics via an environmentally friendly "dry-coating" method and subsequently reduced in l-ascorbic acid solution.
In the present study, an attempt was made to improve functional cotton fabrics by the deposition of multilayer films containing ZnO nanoparticle.
Main problems are e.g.: the destruction of the complexity of urban fabric, functional disadvantages, environmental and landscape threats.
