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52 Eco-Friendly Textile Dyeing and Finishing

Chemical finishing is crucial for giving textiles new functionalities and making them ap‐ propriate for special applications, such as antimicrobial resistance, flame retardancy and others. Textile finishing is also an important process as it improves appearance, perform‐ ance or hand.

Cyclodextrins can act as hosts and form inclusion compounds with various small molecules. Such complexes can be formed in solutions, in a solid state as well as when cyclodextrins are linked to various surfaces where they can act as permanent or temporary hosts for small molecules that provide certain desirable attributes. This characteristic makes cyclodextrin a promising reagent in textile finishing.
