The surface characterization of mulberry silk grafted with acrylamide by plasma copolymerization

✍ Scribed by Jing Zhang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 198 KB
• Volume: 64
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8995
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19970531)64:9<1713::aid-app6>3.0.co;2-i

✦ Synopsis

The effects of plasma-induced graft copolymerization and simultaneous plasma-treated graft copolymerization with acrylamide (AAm) on the structure of mulberry silk are investigated. Through scanning electron microscopy, transmission infrared (IR), and attenuated total reflectance-IR and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) studies, changes of the surface morphology, structure, and composition are observed. The results show that plasma-induced graft copolymerization has more influence on the original structure of silk than does simultaneous plasma-treated graft copolymerization. The former brings the AAm branch polymer into the main chain of silk by the initiation of some kind of oxygen and nitrogen groups formed by the plasma, but the latter directly forms the AAm branch or cross-linking polymers with oxygen and nitrogen groups on the silk surface. This is the reason for the high elastic recovery angle of silk fabric modified by the two plasma graft copolymerizations.