• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2003.10b
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• pp.213-214
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• 2003

1950년 Poly(ethylene terephthalate)(이하 PET)의 상업화 이후 Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)(이하 PTT)는 동종의 Poly(methylene terephthalate)계열의 고분자 중에서 Poly(butylene terephthalate) (이하 PBT)와 함께 최근 가장 주목받는 섬유 중의 하나이다. PTT 섬유는 얼마 전까지만 해도 주원료인 1,3-propanediol(이하 PDO)의 가격이 너무 높아 지난 60년 간 상업화 및 학문적 연구가 거의 이루어지지 않다가 최근 미국의 Shell사와 독일의 Degussa(미국의 Dupont)에 의해 PDO가 대량 생산되면서 상업화에 대한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.99-102
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• 2001

• Macromolecular Research
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.145-149
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• 2002

Transesterification between poly(trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT) and bisphenol-A-polycarbonate (PC) is studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. When the blend of PTT/PC is annealed at higher temperatures, the samples do not show any melting peak at an initial stage, indicating the samples completely lose their crystallinity due to the formation of random copolymers. However, when the random copolymer is annealed at temperatures lower than the melting temperature of PTT, a melting peak is observed, indicating that the random copolymers are sequentially reordered. The melting point and the heat of fusion of crystals formed from the crystallization-induced sequential reordering depend upon the annealing temperature and time. The average sequence length determined from NMR is increased as the blocks are regenerated.

• Journal of Fashion Business
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.121-128
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• 2003

A new textile material, poly(trimethylene terephthalate) polymer, has been introduced to the textile industry. The structure of PTT is similar to the PET, while the tensile deformation and subsequent recovery property is better than that of PET. In this study, the physical and mechanical properties of textile woven fabrics made of PTT, PET, and nylon 6 yarns as the filling yarn were determined using the Kawabata Evaluation System (KES), including tensile, bending, shearing, compression, and surface related parameters. On top of these measurements, the subjective ratings by evaluators were performed on the fabric samples. From the examination of the stress-strain behavior of the yarn specimens focused on the recovery mode, it was evident that the PTT specimen developed lower stress at 3% elongation. The subsequent recovery curve showed that the PTT has less stress-decay rate than the other specimens, implying that the recovery behavior of the PTT is recommendable for the end-uses including stretchable textile materials, sports wears, etc. The KES bending rigidity(B) value of the PTT sample fabric was lower than that of the PET sample fabric. Subjective evaluation of the fabric samples by the evaluators on the descriptive word pair "soft - not soft" showed similar tendency with the KES B determination of the fabric samples.

• Textile Coloration and Finishing
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.316-320
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• 2003

In order to investigate the dyeing property of poly trimethylene terephthalate(PTT) fabric, the dyeing of PTT fabric was carried at under condition of different dyeing temperature by using several disperse dyes with different energy level. Particularly, this study discussed the PTT dyeing thermodynamically. Used disperse dyes were selected based on the their chemical structure and energy level. The obtained results were as followings; The dye adsorption of S type disperse dye such as C. I. Disperse Blue 79 increased with increasing dyeing temperature. In a exhaustion rate of PTT fabric with disperse dyes, C. I. Disperse Blue 56 showed higher values than that of C. I. Disperse Orange 29 and Blue 79. For the interpretation of thermodynamic dyeing behavior, the partition coefficient ( K ) and some several thermodynamic parameters such as standard affinity$(-\mu^\circ)$ and heat of dyeing$(\Delta{H}^\circ)$ calculated from the adsorption isotherm. From above results, as the energy level of disperse dye is small, the partition coefficient and standard affinity increased. But the heat of dyeing of PTT fabric with disperse dye showed high negative value in order of E type(C. I. Disperse Blue 56), SE type(C. I. Disperse Orange 29) and S type(C. I. Disperse 79).

• Fibers and Polymers
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2003

The thermal behavior, morphology, ester-interchange reaction of Poly(trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT)/poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) melt blends were investigated over the whole composition range(xPTT/(1-x)PET) using a twinscrew Brabender. The melt blends were analyzed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy ($^{13}{C-NMR}$), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Single glass transition temperature ($T_g$) and cold crystallization temperature ($T_cc$) were observed in all melt blends. Melt blends were found to be due to the ester-interchange reaction in PTT/PET blend. Also the randomness of copolymer increases because transesterification between PT and PET increases with increasing blending time This reaction increases homogeneity of the blends and decreases the degree of crystallinity of the melt blends. In PTT-rich blends, mechanical properties decrease with increase of PET content compared with that of pure PTT. And, in PET-rich blends, tensile modulus decreases with increase of PTT content, but tensile strength and elongation is similar to that of pure PET.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.18-24
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• 2000

The phase transformation of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) in crystalline state was simulated by atomistic modeling using molecular mechanics technique. The crystalline structure of PTT was successfully prepared using the well-defined unit cell structure of PTT and was satisfactorily verified by comparing that with the structure obtained from the x-ray diffraction experiments. The basic elastic properties were predicted in this study, showing that the crystalline structure of PTT is very pliable to the deformation at small strain. When the crystalline structure of PTT was stepwise deformed up to 50% of strain in chain direction under uniaxial extension condition, the change in dihedral angle of trimethylene unit from gg to tt conformation was accompanied with a large increase of stress, indicating that the phase transformation of PTT in crystalline state is difficult to occur.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.83-86
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• 2003

최근 들어 poly(trimethylene terephthalate)(PTT)를 다른 고분자와 블렌딩시켜 특성 변화를 검토한 논문이 많이 발표되고 있는데 PTT와 블렌딩하는 고분자는 주로 PET와 같은 Poly(alkylene terephthalate)계 고분자들이다[1,2]. 나프탈렌환을 갖는 Poly(alkylene naphthalate)계 고분자를 PTT와 블렌딩한 연구는 PTT/poly(ethylene naphthalate)(PEN) 블렌드계[3] 정도가 보고되고 있으며, PTT를 다른 나프탈렌계 고분자와 블렌딩한 연구 결과는 거의 없는 실정이다. (중략)

• Textile Coloration and Finishing
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.132-139
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• 2003

PTT[Poly(trimethylene terephthalate)] fibers was annealed by passing on the plate heater to illuminate the effects of annealing on the alkaline hydrolysis behavior properties with varying the treatment temperature for 0.5 second. The L010 and crystallinity were increased with increases in temperature. With the increases of the temperature, the dynamic viscoelastic behaviors were analyzed to be reduction in $T_{max}(tan\;\delta)$. The weight loss in alkaline solution was two times more rapid for the PTT annealed at $200^\circ{C}$ than the control samples. The kinetics of hydrolysis was confirmed that the hydrolysis of the PTT fibers in the alkaline solution was started from the surface of the fibers and selective to the amorphous region in continuation, on the basis of the results of the increase in crystallinity and the decrease in dye uptake at the initial stage of the hydrolysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.277-282
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• 1999