ZHANG Chuanjie;WANG Huaifang;XIONG Wei
. 2012, 43(13): 1752-1755.
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Calcium alginate fibers (CAF) were immersed into aluminum sulfate aqueous solution in order to improve salt resistance and dyeing properties of CAF. The optimum conditions for modification of CAF are as following: concentration of aluminum sulfate is 15wt.%, reaction temperature is 45 ℃ and reaction time is 40 min. Under these conditions, the breaking strength of modified calcium alginate fiber (MCAF) is 2.94 cN.dtex-1 which is 11% higher than that of CAF. The structure of both CAF and MCAF was characterized by FTIR and XRD. During modification process, carboxyl groups react with hydroxyl groups involved in calcium alginates fibers’ macromolecular structure to form ester compounds. Meanwhile, aluminum ions in the solution exchange with sodium ions contained in calcium alginate fibers’ macromolecular structure to form a three dimensional network configuration with alginate macromolecular which is different from the “egg-box” structure of the compound containing calcium ions and alginate macromolecular. The results of XRD show that crystal structure of MCAF is changed and crystallinity of MCAF has increased with the comparision of unmodified calcium alginate fibers. However, crystallinity of MCAF slightly decreases with the increase of temperature and concentration of aluminum sulfate aqueous solution. The water absorbability of MCAF decreases compare with CAF, especially for solution A that is used to imitate the wound exudates. The water absorbability of CAF is 13.1 in solution A, but that of MCAF declines to 1.28. However, the water absorbability of MCAF is still much better than that of cotton fibers. The salt resistance of MCAF is higher than that of unmodified calcium alginate fibers and moreover they will not gelatinize in physiological salt solution. Even so, the breaking strength of MCAF decreases after treating in the salt solution. The higher lever concentration and temperature of salt solution reaches, the more serious damage to MCAF happens. The K/S value of dyed MCAF is about 4.5, which is 37.5 times higher than that of dyed CAF. Moreover, the color fastness to washing of dyed MCAF is above grade 4.