New Research Trends for Textiles

Textiles, an open-access international journal by MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), focuses on the broad field of textile materials and topics including, but not limited to, the following: fibers and yarns for textiles, properties, and microstructures; advances in weaving, braiding, and knitting technologies; 3D textiles; nonwovens; structure and properties of high-performance textiles; characterization and testing of textiles; fatigue, damage, and failure of textile; friction in textile materials; simulation in textiles; textile and clothing science; sustainable fibers and textiles; dyeing textiles; microbial [2,3] and plant pigments for the textile industry; microbial enzymes in the textile industry; bio-polishing; bioconversion of waste fabric; microbial wastewater treatment; microbial silk; bacterial cellulose; recycling in textiles; fashion and apparel design; textile composite; preform and prepreg draping; medical textile materials; textile materials for civil engineering applications; geotextiles; smart textiles; protective and thermal protective textiles; textile history and archeology [1]. In order to demonstrate the huge impact of textile research and technology in the world, the Publisher, the Editorial Board, and myself decided to invite contributions, feature papers, from key world-class researchers which were collected in a single Special Issue entitled ‘New world research trends for textiles’, from May 2021 to May 2022. Dielectric Properties of Textile Materials: Analytical Approximations and Experimental Measurements—A Review. by Yusuke Yamada.