Video Highlights Texas Tech Sustainable Advanced Materials Research

Texas Tech University recently released a YouTube video highlighting ongoing research on advanced materials involving cotton, hemp, and other natural fiber-based combinations and blends.

The video features:

• Bunmi Olopade, a research scholar from Nigeria, is looking at cotton for wipes that have antifungal properties that could find applications in medical and hospitality sectors.
• Sustainable functionalization using ionic gases offers new opportunities to impart high-performance characteristics to textiles. Mirza Khyum, graduate student from Bangladesh, is looking into new applications for hemp and its blends.
• Research conducted by Dr. Faizur Rahman, who completed his PhD on the filtration efficiency of different filters such as automotive filters, has shown that quality of manufacturing matters in developing high efficiency filters.