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Effect of Potassium Permanganate Modification on Plasticized Spinning Polyacrylonitrile Fibers with Different
Xiang Li1,2, Xiaonan Dang3
1School of medicine and chemical engineering, Zhenjiang College, Zhenjiang 212003, China. kkaalixiangdang@sina.com.
Abstract:
Plasticized spinning polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers with different diameters were chemically modified by potassium permanganate (KMnO₄). The modification effects of different diameter fibers were studied for the first time. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) results show that, compared with the large diameter ones, small diameter modified fibers show lower cyclization starting temperature (T) and activation energy (E). Both kinds of fibers exhibit better modification effects compared with solution-spun fibers. For the small diameter fibers, chemical modification can occur at low treatment temperature, even at 70 °C. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) results show that modification not only occurs in the amorphous region of the fibers but also in the crystalline region.
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