title: Natural Colorants: Historical, Processing and Sustainable Prospects.
abstract: With the public's mature demand in recent times pressurized the textile industry for use of natural colorants, without any harmful effects on environment and aquatic ecosystem, and with more developed functionalities simultaneously. Advanced developments for the natural bio-resources and their sustainable use for multifunctional clothing are gaining pace now. Present review highlights historical overview of natural colorants, classification and predominantly processing of colorants from sources, application on textiles surfaces with the functionalities provided by them. Chemistry of natural colorants on textiles also discussed with relevance to adsorption isotherms and kinetic models for dyeing of textiles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Y.M.D. College, Maharshi Dayanand University, Nuh, Haryana, 122107, India. yusuf1020@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Mohd
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yusuf
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, 110025, India.
authors.forename: Mohd
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shabbir
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, 110025, India.
authors.forename: Faqeer
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mohammad
keywords: Adsorption; Application; Natural colorants; Processing; Sustainability; Textiles