Three-dimensional crimped biodegradable poly(lactic acid) fibers prepared via melt spinning and controlled structural reorganization

Bo Yang; Rui Wang; Zhenfeng Dong; Jing Wu; Minxuan Kuang; Gaoling Jin; Huiling Ma; Yang Wang; Qingying Zhang; Xiuqin Zhang

doi:10.1039/d0ra08681a

Three-dimensional crimped biodegradable poly(lactic acid) fibers prepared via melt spinning and controlled structural reorganization

RSC Adv. 2020 Nov 25;10(70):42890-42896. doi: 10.1039/d0ra08681a. eCollection 2020 Nov 23.

Authors

Affiliation

¹ Beijing Key Laboratory of Clothing Materials R&D and Assessment, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Textile Nanofiber, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology Beijing 100029 China clyzxq@bift.edu.cn +86 13520886284.

Abstract

Biodegradable three-dimensional crimped fibers were prepared by the side-by-side composite spinning of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and low-melting point PLA (LM-PLA). The structural variation of the PLA/LM-PLA composite fibers during dry and wet heat treatment was explored systematically. It is shown that crystallization and disorientation were two key factors for the formation of the three-dimensional crimped structure of PLA/LM-PLA side-by-side composite fibers (SSCF). The wet heat-treated fiber has better crimp performance and fluffiness, and the crimp number, crimp ratio and crimp elasticity ratio of the treated PLA/LM-PLA SSCF with good comprehensive properties are 21 per 25 mm, 31.9% and 81.6%, which are similar to those of industrialized PET/PTT three-dimensional crimped fibers. The results of this study shed light on the development of novel three-dimensional crimped fibers with biodegradability.