Effect of water‐absorbing nanospheres on antistatic property of isotactic polypropylene fibers |
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| Authors: | Hongxing Liu Jianguo Tang Yao Wang Linjun Huang Yanxin Wang Jiqing Jiao Jixian Liu Zhichao Xin Laurence A Belfiore |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Hybrid Materials The National Base of International S & T Cooperation on Hybrid Materials and the Growing Base for State Key Laboratory, Qingdao University, Qingdao, People's Republic of China;2. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
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| Abstract: | In this article, novel antistatic isotactic polypropylene (iPP) fibers were prepared through adding ternary polymer water‐absorbing nanospheres (TPWANs) into iPP melt in melt spinning process. The TPWANs were synthesized through emulsion copolymerization of styrene (St), butyl acrylate (BA), and sodium allylsulfonate (SAS). The characterization results of Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FT‐IR) and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR) confirmed the ternary components in this copolymer. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images indicated the nanospherical shape of TPWANs with the characteristics of 80–90 nm size range of diameter and good dispersion in iPP fibers. The volume resistance of iPP fibers decreased by three orders from 1012 to 109 Ω cm when the 6 wt % TPWANs was added into iPP fibers, indicating that the blend fibers have good antistatic property. Most importantly, the nanospherical structure of TPWANs imparts both the compatibility and antistatic property into the blend iPP fibers. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2014 , 131, 40568. |
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| Keywords: | antistatic fibers emulsion polymerization nanospheres sodium allylsulfonate water-absorbing |
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