ABSTRACT
Over recent years, nanotechnology has gained considerable attention as a highly engaging area of research. This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of nano-assisted medical textiles for hygiene and healthcare purposes, which helps in controlling the spread of infection, healing wounds, and curing diseases. Nanotechnology has provided enormous strength in designing and engineering products by incorporating the functional capability to accomplish a specific task. Within this context, the primary aim is to explore the ways by which nanomaterials and nanotechnology are utilized. At the same time, it seeks to provide an understanding of the inherently vast scope of medical textile applications in maintaining hygiene and developing healthcare products. In the era of innovations, nanotechnology has revolutionized the range of applications. It is capable of inducing healing capacity, repairing tissue damage, and treating organ failure and deformity restoration properties with advanced medical textile materials and products. Research efforts are primarily directed toward uncovering novel materials through molecular manipulation and at the atomic level. This exceptionally brilliant tool allows the development of the material’s intrinsic characteristics, which depend on the atomic structure. Additionally, the concept of sophisticated nanotechnology has offered multiple controllable, high-performance, and specialized features useful in meeting healthcare and hygiene-associated objectives. Several past studies have evaluated the rapidly advancing nanomaterials along with their inherent properties. The distinctive attributes of nanoworld reveal remarkable prospects across a wide array of usage striking opportunities in a diverse range of applications including drug delivery, tissue engineering, organ transplant, skin grafting, bone replacement, biomedical scaffolding, wound dressing, protective textiles, medical implants, biosensors, and so on. The outstanding biocompatible, porous, and non-toxic properties have led to the exploration and commercial utilization of various products in biomedical and healthcare fields.
