UV Protection: Historical Perspectives and State‐of‐the‐Art Achievements

The chapter presents a general review of up-to-date achievements in the UV absorbers design and fabrication for the most eco-friendly textile finishing. Nowadays, progressive and severe effects of UV radiation on human skin induced by the reduction of the ozone in the earth's atmosphere have been recorded. Consequently, lifelong vulnerability to UV irradiation leads to a list of severe skin health aftermaths: the accelerated aging, photodermatitis, skin reddening, and even malignancy. The progress of polymeric supports with UV barrier was extensively studied up to now. This historical perspective gathered in a new manner/concept the synergic effect UV radiation–polymeric surfaces by stressing the novel studies on the topic. The connection bounded by UV light and attributes of polymeric substrates, like: structural, physical, and chemical was discussed in this overview. In addition, both standard and innovative chemical substances and methodologies of UV performance for polymeric like UV shelters, nanoparticles, and layer-by-layer self-assembly (LbL) were approached in this meta-data perspective.