Phenyl-methyl phosphazene derivatives for preparation and modification of hydrophobic properties of polymeric nonwoven textiles
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Reactive and Functional Polymers |
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| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2015.12.013 |
| Field | Inorganic chemistry |
| Keywords | Polymeric nanofibers; Electrospinning technology; hydrophobicity; Ph-Me (t) additive; Ph-Me (p) polyphosphazene |
| Description | This paper focuses on the preparation of two types of hydrophobic nanolayers using electrospinning technology. The first synthetic approach consists in direct fiberizing of polymeric phenyl-methyl-polyphosphazene Ph-Me(p) with the aim to preparing nanolayers that have significant hydrophobicity and thermal stability. The preparation of Ph-Me(p) is a multi-step reaction which produces a relatively low amount of the product. The second area of our interest was the creation of nanofibers formed from a mixture of some commercially available organic polymers and a cyclo-phosphazene derivative. In this case, tri(phenyl)-trimethyl-cyclo-triphosphazene, Ph-Me(t), whose synthesis is less complicated than its polymeric form, was used as an additive. The influence of the Ph-Me(t) additive in the nanofibers on the affinity to water was compared with the affinity of nanolayers made from a pure commercial polymer, i.e. without any phosphazene additive. It was also shown that the hydrophobic properties of fibers formed from Ph-Me(p) dissolved especially in THF are better than those of the nanofibers composed of a commercial polymer with the addition of Ph-Me(t). |
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