Chapter 9 - Principle of Green Chemistry: A modern perspective for development of sustainable textile fiber-based green nanocomposites

Abstract

Green chemistry is a chemistry and manufacturing process that is renewable, safe, and nonpollutant that uses minimal quantities of materials and power/energy and creates less to no waste material. To achieve these criteria, textile fiber/natural fiber comes into consideration as they are light weight, high specific strength, and most importantly because of their eco-friendly nature, these are gaining more importance in textile industries for numerous applications. Various processing methods are adopted to develop composite materials, but all the methods have their own advantages/disadvantages. Due to this, the properties of the manufactured composite get degraded which leads to failure during application. To enhance the properties of the composites, nanofillers are also gaining importance as a reinforcement with the fiber matrix. Also, to eliminate the waste of material during manufacturing, green chemistry plays an important role. This chapter deals with how the principle of green chemistry can be adopted to develop sustainable textile fiber–based green nanocomposites. The various processing methods of textile fiber–based green nanocomposites along with the potential applications are also been addressed in this chapter.