Leather Types and Fiber-Based Leather Alternatives-An Overview on Selected Materials, Properties, Microscopy, Electron Dispersive Spectroscopy EDS and Infrared Spectroscopy

Carolina María Borlandelli; Boris Mahltig*

    Leather is probable one of the oldest materials which are in use of mankind even in prehistoric ages [1,2]. Nowadays leather containing products cover a broad range of different applications. Leather is used in clothes, shoes, hand bags, belts and many other things of daily use. Leather is as well used in furniture and automotive interior [3, 4]. Main reasons for this broad range of different applications are positive material properties, especially the durability in use. Positive are also the availability and the image as a kind of premium product...