报告题目：Engineering design of fabrics for fluid handling properties
报告人：Ningtao Mao
时间：2016年5月12日（周四）下午13:30---15:00
地点：17号楼312会议室
报告摘要：Engineering design of many technical textile products requires insightful understanding of fluid flow transport through fibrous materials and wicking, which is influenced by fabric structure, fibre morphology and surface properties. In addition, most of textile structures are anisotropic, how we can manipulate fabric structure and fibre surface properties to achieve controlled fluid transport and delivery is always desirable in the development of technical textile products such as healthcare products, filter fabrics and protective clothing. This presentation will give an overview of the influence of fibre morphology, surface properties and fabric structures on the liquid handling properties of fabrics.
人物名片：Ningtao Mao is a Senior Lecturer in Performance Textiles, in School of Design, University of Leeds (UK), Director of the Performance Textiles and Clothing Research Group. Ningtao obtained his BSc and MSc in Textile Technology (Northwest Institute of Textile Science and Technology, China) in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He obtained his PhD in Textile Technology (University of Leeds, UK) in 2001, and he has worked on the engineering design of technical textile products and functional clothing materials in the University of Leeds since 2003.
Ningtao has disclosed the relationship between the anisotropic fluid transport and wicking and the structure of fibrous materials, and proposed the concepts of directional permeability and directional capillary pressure, and has built a series of models to describe the linkage between anisotropic wicking/directional fluid flow and nonwoven fabric structures. He also conducted the first life cycle assessment of British wool production process which underpins the British Wool Marketing Board’s existing environmental wool scheme and has supported Prince Charles’ “Wool Campaign” project.Ningtao has published over a hundred research papers and authored 7 book chapters and held five patents. His research has been sponsored by many international companies, EU and UK government and charities including European Space Agency, EPSRC, NHS, Technology Strategy Board, InnovateUK, Melinda and Gates Foundation, etc.
