Effect of Copoly(Ester-Amide 6)(PET-PA6) on Compatibility of PET/PA6 Blended Fibers

Abstract:

Significant improvement of compatibility in PET/PA6 blends is essential to obtain fibers having enough mechanical strength as well as the comprehensive performance. In this article, copoly (ester-amide 6) was used as compatibilizer to improve the compatibility of PET and PA6. Three copoly (ester-amide 6) s with 5, 10% content of PA6 were prepared by co-polymerization from PTA , EG, as well as PA6 or caprolactam (A6), i.e. polyamide was incorporated both in the form of polymer and monomer, respectively. The sequence length of PET in the copoly (ester-amide 6) s is 33.4, 16.5 and 38.4 for PET-PA6-5%, PET-PA6-10% and PET-A6-5%, respectively, calculated by ¹³C NMR. Then PET/PA6 blend fibers were fabricated by melting spinning of PET and PA6 with 20 %wt addition of PET-PA6-5%, PET-PA6-10% and PET-A6-5%, respectively, to explore the effect of copoly (ester-amide 6) s on compatibility of PET/PA6 blend fibers, where the mass ratio of PET and PA6 is 85/15. DSC results show that the crystallization peaks of PET and PA6 during cooling from the blend melt become adjacent each other with increasing addition of copoly (ester-amide 6) s, even forming fused crystallization of them. It was found from SEM that the size of PA6 phase decreased and the phase boundary became indistinct due to the presence of copoly (ester-amide 6) s. Further more, the glass transition temperatures (T_g) of PET and PA6 closed to each other based on DMA result. Among these three copoly (ester-amide 6) s, PET-A6-5% display the best effect on the compatibility of PET and PA6 blend fiber, suggesting copoly (ester-amide 6) s could play important role in raise the compatibility of PET and PA6 blend.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 993)
• Pages: 709-717
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.993.709
• Online since: May 2020
• Authors: Yu Kun Shi, Jin Long Xu, Song Lin Wang, Sheng Lin Yang, Jun Hong Jin, Guang Li*
• Keywords: Compatibility, Copoly(Ester-Amide 6), Poly(Ethylene Terephthate), Polyamide 6

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