- Introduction of some physical-chemical methods for fibre reactivity determination, that represents important contribution to the field of textile material science : - electrokinetic methods for determination of absorption/dissociation properties of fibre forming polymers and indirectly for determining the hydrophilic character of fibres; - tensiometry for determining hydrophilic/hydrophobic character of textile fibres for precise monitoring of wettings' kinetic, determining the contact angles, polar and disperse part of fibres' surface free energy - to indicate the reaction ability for textile materials; - titration methods for determining the content of accessible reactive functional groups in structural and chemical modified materials. - A contribution to broadening basic knowledge in the domain of textile substrate finishing by investigating dyeing processes from the physical and chemical aspects - dependence of dyeing quality on the mutual influences of dyes in a multi component dyebath. - Introduction of artificial neural networks for computer recipe calculation when determining dye concentration for textile printing paste - a new method that enables optimal dye selection and colorimetrically optimised printing paste preparation for textile printing. - Introduction of new digital printing technologies to textile printing processes and comparison with conventional textile printing technology; - Acquiring new knowledge in the field of ink-jet printed replica of textile museum exhibits; - Acquiring basic knowledge in the field of influences of pretreatment procedures, UV pigment ink composition and UV curing conditions on prints quality; - Rheological study of environmental friendly non-ionic surfactants, polysaccharide thickeners and dyes in printing of cellulose fibers, reduction of production costs and minimizing wastewater pollution; - Polycarboxlic acids like 1,2,3,4 butanetetracarboxlic acid (BTCA) are well known nonformaldehyde crosslinking reagents. BTCA has four carboxylic acid groups, which can react with hydroxyl groups of cellulose and form stable ester bonds. We grafted beta-cyclodextrin molecules on hydroxyl groups of cellulose via BTCA. Nanoencaptulated textile materials were tested by coloured reactions using phenolphthalein and phenolred and by ATR FT-IR spectroscopy. - New fluorescence and laser dyes were synthesized and the influences of their molecular structure on the reaction path and fluorescence character were studied. - Synthesis of new electron-donor polyfunctional molecules (diselenadiazafulvalenes) which form the complex with electro-acceptors and show the ability to form molecualr materials. - Introduce artificial neural networks in modeling and optimizing H2O2/UV decolouration process; determing process parameters which influence on decolouration efficiency; using Plackett-Burman partial factorial design for seven parameters at three different levels (this determination reduce the number of experiments); decolouration of 14 reactive dyes using H2O2/UV process, six of them have been also decolourize using H2O2/O3 and H2O2/Fe2plus process. Results indicate that activation with UV is the most convenient approach. - Improving the laundering efficiency and recycling of wastewater in the textile industry (dyeing and printing procedure with reactive dyes) by using "hot wash" technology, developing a sensor control of washing and water recycling technology, mainly with membrane technology, which leads to a 90 % decrease of water use. - Development of new optical sensors based on immobilization of new synthesized fluorescent and absorption indicators into sol-gel matrix - new way for on-line and in-situ determination of parameters such as pH, O2, H2O2. Slovene patent for making optical chemical sensor for H2O2 determination is registered (No. P2002017). - Introducing Candida albicans as a bioindicator organism for determining the chemo-thermal disinfection effect of a washing p...