Kavita Mathur
Bio
Research
Key broad areas of research:
- Healthcare textiles
- Research promoting Health and Wellness
- Wearable technologies
- Sustainable fashion
- Refashioning textile waste
- Upcycling design for reuse applications
- Material innovation
- Color and woven textile design
- Smart textiles design, which includes functional and interactive textile solutions for home and apparel
- Performance textile design inspired by nature (biomimicry)
- Bridge other areas of design such as digital communications, sustainable design practices, smart materials and technologies
Teaching
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- TT252 – FORMATION AND STRUCTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS , Fall 2018
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Education
PhD Fiber and Polymer Science North Carolina State University 2007
MS Textiles and Clothing Mumbai, India 2002
BS Textiles and Clothing Rajasthan Agricultural University 2000
Area(s) of Expertise
Fashion Design
Fiber Science
Functional Textile Design
Medical Textiles
Performance Textiles
Sustainability
Textile Comfort
Textile Design
Weaving
Publications
- A standardized procedure for quantitative evaluation of residual viral activity on antiviral treated textiles , TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL (2022)
- Tensile properties of 3D printed continuous fiberglass reinforced cellular composites , The Journal of The Textile Institute (2022)
- Tribology of the sock-skin Interface - the influence of different fabric parameters on sock friction , JOURNAL OF FOOT AND ANKLE RESEARCH (2022)
- Comparing Performance of 3D-Printed and Injection-Molded Fiber-Reinforced Composite Parts in Ring-Spinning Traveler Application , TECHNOLOGIES (2021)
- Maximizing the Performance of 3D Printed Fiber-Reinforced Composites , JOURNAL OF COMPOSITES SCIENCE (2021)
- Nondestructive quantitative evaluation of yarns and fabrics and determination of contact area of fabrics using x-ray micro-computed tomography system for skin-textiles friction analysis , ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2021)
- Surface functionalization of greige cotton knitted fabric through plasma and cationization for dyeing with reactive and acid dyes , CELLULOSE (2021)
- A critical review of additive manufacturing: An innovation of mass customization , Journal of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management (2020)
- A critical review on 3D printed continuous fiber-reinforced composites: History, mechanism, materials and properties , Composite Structures (2020)
- Clothing Experiences of Consumers with Body Asymmetry and their Interaction with Three-Dimensional (3D) Visualization Technology , The International Journal of Design in Society (2020)
Groups
- Faculty
- Research: Fashion Design
- Research: Fiber Science
- Research: Functional Textile Design
- Research: Medical Textiles
- Research: Performance Textiles
- Research: Sustainability
- Academics: Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management
- Research: Textile Comfort
- Research: Textile Design
- Research: Weaving