ABSTRACT
There is a huge demand for functional textiles due to the increased public awareness about special textile products, which can provide various additional functionalities. Imparting functional properties to textiles involves a separate process called finishing. This separate application process needs additional cost, resources, and production time; this leads to wastage of resources and degradation of the base substrate, which makes it unsustainable. The modern-day textile industries are seeking sustainable alternatives to impart functionalities to textiles using dyes at a dyeing stage to avoid finishing treatment. This chapter gives a brief overview of several approaches and reported works in the direction of synthesis of various types of functional dyes and their application to textiles for the development of functional textiles.
