Kavita Mathur

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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

• • TT252 – FORMATION AND STRUCTURE OF TEXTILE FABRICS , Fall 2018

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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)

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