Effects of Methacrylamide Treatment on Silk Fibers II. Thermal Behavior of Methacrylamide-treated Silk Fibers

견섬유에 대한 메타크릴아미드의 처리효과 II. 메타크릴아미드 처리견의 열적 거동에 관하여

Treatment of vinyl monomers onto silk fiber modifies the properties of the original silk fiber considerably. This field has been the subject of investigation by many workers using chemical and radiation initiation. Many studies on the reaction conditions, polymerization mechanism, physical properties and practical performances of methacrylamide-treated silk fiber have been continued. However, the polymerization mechanism has not been clearly revealed yet and this remains ambiguously whether the grafting is formed on fiber or not. In general, it has been accepted that free radicals were formed and vinyl monomers were polymerized in silk fibroin by graft polymerization mechanism, while active sties were varied by the types of monomer and initiator as well as by the reaction conditions. On the other hand, there is another argument on polymerization mechanism, in which monomers are polymerized and impregnated in the internal side of the fiber by homopolymerization. Though a large number of analytical methods are used to examine the polymerization mechanism of methacrylamide-treated silk fiber, the results on the basis of thermal analysis are merely reported in this paper. In differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis, the thermal decomposition behaviors of the methacrylamie-treated silk fibers were determined and compared to those of the controlled silk fibers. DSC curves obtained from the methacrylamide-treated silk fibers showed double peaks at around 290$^{\circ}C$ (A peak) and 320$^{\circ}C$ (B peak) which are attributed to the thermal decomposition of the methacrylamide polymer and silk fibroin fiber, respectively. The temperature of A and B peak shifted to higher value with the increase of add-on. Also, the moisture regain of the treated silk fibers increased with add-on.

반응개시제로 potassium persulfate를 사용하여 견섬유에 MAA를 처리하였을 때의 반응 mechanism을 구명하기 위하여, 열분석과 일련의 기구분석을 행하였으며, 이 중 열분석에 의해 얻어진 결과는 다음과 같다. Differential scanning calorimeter 관찰로부터는 metharcrylamide에 의한 가공견섬유는 견 fibroin과 methacrylamide polymer의 열분석에 의한 peak가 뚜렷하게 분리되어 나타났으며, 가공율이 증가함에 따라 두 peak가 모두 고온측으로 이동하는 것으로 나타났다. 가공견섬유의 흡습율은 가공율이 증가함에 따라 증가하였다.