Ultra-high strength and modulus polyethylene fibers can be produced from UHMW-PE(ul-tra-high molecular weight polyethylene) by gel spinning and ultra-high drawing method.The spe-cial supermolecular structure of″shish...Ultra-high strength and modulus polyethylene fibers can be produced from UHMW-PE(ul-tra-high molecular weight polyethylene) by gel spinning and ultra-high drawing method.The spe-cial supermolecular structure of″shish-kebabs″ is the intrinsic course for the fiber having highperformance.In this paper,the formation mechanism of the characteristic structure of PE fibershas been investigated by means of SEM,DSC,WAXD,SAXS and TEM,The experimental resultsshow that the extended-chain structure of PE fibers is formed originally from the bridged mole-cules in amorphous region and increased gradually during further drawing porcess.The″shish-kebab″ structure is formed by the combination of extended-chalnS and originalfolded-chains.展开更多
It is believed that gel spun polyethylene(PE)fibers have a somewhat extended chain crystalstructure,because of the disentangling of the chains which takes place in semi-dilute solutionand the ultra high draw ratio use...It is believed that gel spun polyethylene(PE)fibers have a somewhat extended chain crystalstructure,because of the disentangling of the chains which takes place in semi-dilute solutionand the ultra high draw ratio used.Ten years ago,PE shish-kebabs grown from dilute solutionwere proved to have extended chain backbone which causes the raising of its melting point.These crystals were found to have a triclinic crystal phase,This study shows a different result forgel spun ultra high drawn PE fiber.The unit cell remains orthorhombic even if the draw ratioreaches 50;as the draw ratio increases,the length in a and b axes are shortened while that in c ax-is changes quite insignificantly.When the draw ratio is over 10,two endothermic melting peakscan be seen in the DSC curves with corresponding peak temperature of 136.7-145.3℃.The lat-ter peak is attributed to the amount of extended chain crystal.展开更多
文摘Ultra-high strength and modulus polyethylene fibers can be produced from UHMW-PE(ul-tra-high molecular weight polyethylene) by gel spinning and ultra-high drawing method.The spe-cial supermolecular structure of″shish-kebabs″ is the intrinsic course for the fiber having highperformance.In this paper,the formation mechanism of the characteristic structure of PE fibershas been investigated by means of SEM,DSC,WAXD,SAXS and TEM,The experimental resultsshow that the extended-chain structure of PE fibers is formed originally from the bridged mole-cules in amorphous region and increased gradually during further drawing porcess.The″shish-kebab″ structure is formed by the combination of extended-chalnS and originalfolded-chains.
基金This project is supported by National Science Foundation of China
文摘It is believed that gel spun polyethylene(PE)fibers have a somewhat extended chain crystalstructure,because of the disentangling of the chains which takes place in semi-dilute solutionand the ultra high draw ratio used.Ten years ago,PE shish-kebabs grown from dilute solutionwere proved to have extended chain backbone which causes the raising of its melting point.These crystals were found to have a triclinic crystal phase,This study shows a different result forgel spun ultra high drawn PE fiber.The unit cell remains orthorhombic even if the draw ratioreaches 50;as the draw ratio increases,the length in a and b axes are shortened while that in c ax-is changes quite insignificantly.When the draw ratio is over 10,two endothermic melting peakscan be seen in the DSC curves with corresponding peak temperature of 136.7-145.3℃.The lat-ter peak is attributed to the amount of extended chain crystal.
