Organic–inorganic hybrid composite fibres and applications

The organic–inorganic hybrid composite fibres provide alternative materials to the materials community and exhibit novelty, astonishing performance features, and particular application-based characteristics. Smart materials could be produced by modifying the material attributes of hybrid fibre composition at the molecular level. Processing and molecular engineering could be coupled synergistically for tailoring complex hybrid systems of diverse shapes by tuning the size, composition, morphology, and functionality. The two or more materials used for producing organic–inorganic hybrid composite fibres typically differ from each other either in ‘macroscale compositions’ or in ‘form’. Nowadays, organic–inorganic hybrid composite fibres are considered significant materials to academicians and industrialists. Therefore different organic–inorganic hybrid composite fibres, their synthesis protocol, multidisciplinary field of research, potential applications, and future trends have been discussed in this current chapter. To sum up, the hybrid materials field is vast, robust, and promising; hence, newer fields are being explored continuously.