Authors Yimin Qin
Due to their unique chemical and physical structures, textile fibers and fabrics are ideal carriers for drugs that can be directly transferred to the skin or other parts of the body. development of drug-releasing systems and describes the various methods used for loading drugs into textile-based structures, such as coating, encapsulation, fiber spinning, bioconjugation, ion complexes, and nanotechnologies. Attempts are also made to analyze the controllability of the drug-loading and drug-releasing systems. In addition, this chapter introduces the many applications for drug-releasing textile materials, such as functional wound dressings and antimicrobial textiles.