“…During the past decade, functional textiles have received industrial consideration as well as research attention. In particular, fabrics coated with tailored functional materials have been introduced in the cosmetic, pharma, electronic and medicinal fields for therapeutic, controlled release, protecting, sensing, and monitoring applications [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. Among the different types of functional textiles, antibacterial ones are receiving increasing research and development interest due to health risks associated with infectious bacteria and epidemic outbreaks of viruses throughout the world.…”