KR20110129598A - Developing tapering process of 100% pla and pla/pbt blended monofilaments using alkaline hydrolysis - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A PLA/PBT blended monofilament and a method for tapering the same are provided to enable easy and clean tapering of biodegradable plastic fiber. CONSTITUTION: A method for fabricating a monofilament comprises a step of performing melt spinning 5-25 wt% of polylactic acid. A method for tapering the monofilament comprises a step of dipping one end of the monofilament in 40-50%(w/v) of an alkali solution and reacting at 40-90 degrees Celsius for 30-90 minutes. A tooth brush and a cosmetic brush contain the tapered monofilament.

Description

Developing Tapering Process of 100% PLA and PLA / PBT Blended Monofilaments using Alkaline Hydrolysis}

The present invention relates to a PLA / PBT mixed monofilament and a tapering method thereof and to a tapering method of the PLA monofilament, and more particularly, PLA / PBT fiber is biodegradable and excellent thermomechanical properties produced by melt-mixing spinning PLA and PBT And a method of tapering PLA or PLA / PBT fibers for use in brushes and the like.

Plastics in general are considered to be the main contaminants of the environment because they decompose in the natural environment for a few hundred years, and generally hardly decompose. In addition, the amount of plastic products dumped at sea reaches hundreds of thousands of tons per year, and this waste continues to accumulate in the ocean, causing problems such as damage to fisheries and marine ecosystems. Therefore, the demand for new materials that are easily decomposed in the natural environment and does not cause environmental pollution problems has increased.

Biodegradable plastic is a resin that retains the same physical properties as general plastics during use, but is completely decomposed into water and carbon dioxide by microorganisms (bacteria, fungi and algae) present in nature when disposed or discarded after use. .

Recently, research and development and commercialization of biodegradable polymers decomposed by microorganisms in nature are rapidly progressing in order to improve severe environmental pollution not only in the developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Germany, but also worldwide.

Biodegradable plastics are usually made from starch or aliphatic polyester. Petroleum, the primary source of raw materials for packaging and man-made fibers currently in use, is unlikely to be adequately supplied in the next 20 to 70 years. Biodegradable plastics can be fully recycled by using renewable resources. This has the biggest advantage of being possible. In addition, it has the same function as conventional plastics and has price competitiveness compared to petrochemical products, and this price competitiveness is expected to increase in proportion to the depletion of petroleum resources.

Such biodegradable plastics include polylactic acid (PLA), which is an aliphatic polyester-based polymer, which is attracting attention as a medical and environmentally friendly material due to its excellent biodegradability, biocompatibility, nontoxicity of decomposition products, and processability.

The inventors of the present invention have developed a fiber that is biodegradable, such as polylactic acid, and has better thermomechanical properties than polylactic acid, and applied it to a brush to develop an eco-friendly beauty and hygiene brush. The tapering method was studied. As a result, when the fiber is prepared by melt mixing and spinning polylactic acid and poly butylenes terephthalate (PBT), it is possible to produce a fiber that is biodegradable and has excellent thermomechanical properties. And when the monofilament of the polylactic acid fiber is reacted with the alkaline solution at a suitable temperature, it was confirmed that a neatly tapered biodegradable monofilament can be produced, to complete the present invention.

Therefore, the main object of the present invention is to provide a fiber and a method for producing the same, which is biodegradable and excellent in thermomechanical properties.

It is another object of the present invention to provide an efficient tapering method and a tapered monofilament of polylactic acid fiber monofilament and the fiber monofilament having excellent biodegradability and thermomechanical properties.

According to one aspect of the invention, the present invention provides a monofilament, characterized in that the polylactic acid is prepared by melt mixed spinning containing 5 to 25% by weight relative to polybutylene terephthalate.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a method for producing monofilament, characterized in that the polylactic acid is prepared by melt blended spinning containing 5 to 25% by weight relative to polybutylene terephthalate.

According to another aspect of the invention, the present invention is characterized in that one end of the monofilament is immersed in an alkaline solution of 40 to 50% (w / v), and reacted for 30 to 90 minutes at 40 to 90 ℃ It provides a method for producing a tapered monofilament to be. At this time, sodium hydroxide (NaOH), potassium hydroxide (KOH) and the like can be used, and sodium hydroxide is preferably used.

According to another aspect of the invention, the present invention is immersed in one end portion of the monofilament prepared by melt spinning polylactic acid in an alkaline solution of 40 to 50% (w / v), 30 to 30 to 40 to 90 ℃ It provides a process for producing tapered monofilaments characterized in that the reaction for 90 minutes. At this time, sodium hydroxide (NaOH), potassium hydroxide (KOH) and the like can be used, and sodium hydroxide is preferably used.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a tapered monofilament produced by the above production method.

According to another aspect of the invention, the invention provides a toothbrush, characterized in that it comprises the tapered monofilament.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a cosmetic brush characterized in that it comprises the tapered monofilament.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described more specifically.

The present inventors attempted melt blended spinning of polylactic acid (PLA) and polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) in order to produce fibers capable of biodegradation and excellent thermomechanical properties. As a result of producing PLA / PBT fibers with different contents of PLA and PBT, the higher the content of PLA, the lower the elastic recovery power of the fibers. When the content of PLA is 5 to 20%, toothbrush and makeup brush, etc. It appeared to be the most suitable for use as a brush. Accordingly, PLA / PBT fibers having a PLA content of 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% were prepared, respectively. As a result of analyzing their physical properties, the PLA / PBT resins showed a PLA content of 5% and 10%. While% was good, more than 15% showed somewhat unstable characteristics of increasing cross-sectional variation during spinning. As a result of DSC of the manufactured fiber, the PLA content of each fiber could be reconfirmed (see FIGS. 2 and 3). As a result of the elongation test, the tensile strength was slightly decreased as the PLA content was higher, but the elongation showed the same tendency as the existing PBT. As a result, PLA / PBT fibers are biodegradable and have excellent thermomechanical properties.

The present inventors have studied their tapering method for using the biodegradable and excellent properties of PLA / PBT fibers and 100% PLA fibers for brushes, and alkaline hydrolysis for the tapering of these fibers. The method was applied.

In order to establish the optimum tapering conditions for each monofilament, experiments with various conditions showed that 100% PLA, unlike the conditions for treatment in 45% alkaline solution for 60 to 120 minutes at 100 ° C or more, which is the optimal tapering condition for PBT monofilaments , 40/50% alkaline solution for 60 minutes at 40-90 ° C for 5/95 PLA / PBT, 10/95 PLA / PBT, 15/85 PLA / PBT and 20/80 PLA / PBT fiber monofilaments Conditions were found to be optimal.

After tapering each monofilament under these optimum conditions, the shape of these tapered monofilaments was analyzed by an image microscope and SEM. As a result, the monofilaments with a high PLA content produced cracks in the longitudinal direction, but all were good. It could be confirmed that the tapered (see FIGS. 4 to 9).

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible not only to manufacture biodegradable plastic fibers having excellent thermomechanical properties, but also to easily and neatly tape the biodegradable plastic fibers, and to use them as brushes for toothbrushes or cosmetic brushes. It will never be inferior to the properties of plastic fibers, and it will be possible to manufacture eco-friendly brush products that can solve environmental pollution problems.

1 is a photograph of 100% PBT, 5/95 PLA / PBT, 10/90 PLA / PBT, 15/85 PLA / PBT and 20/80 PLA / PBT fibers using scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
Figure 2 shows the results of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experiments of 100% PBT, 5/95 PLA / PBT, 10/90 PLA / PBT, 15/85 PLA / PBT and 20/80 PLA / PBT fibers It is a graph.
3 is an enlarged graph of a dotted line of FIG. 2.
Figure 4 is a photograph of the tip and middle portion of the tapered 100% PBT fiber using a SEM.
Figure 5 is a photograph of the tip and the middle portion of the tapered 5/95 PLA / PBT fiber using a SEM.
Figure 6 is a photograph of the tip and the middle of the tapered 10/90 PLA / PBT fiber by using a SEM.
Figure 7 is a photograph of the tip and the middle of the tapered 15/85 PLA / PBT fiber by using a SEM.
FIG. 8 is a photograph of the tip and middle portion of the tapered 20/80 PLA / PBT fiber using SEM. FIG.
Figure 9 is a photograph of the tip and middle portion of the tapered 100% PLA fiber using a SEM.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to Examples. Since these examples are only for illustrating the present invention, the scope of the present invention is not to be construed as being limited by these examples.

Example 1 Preparation of PLA / PBT Fibers

In this embodiment, PLA of MI 20 and PBT resin of IV 0.85 were used, and mixed spinning was performed by varying the content of PLA in 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20%, respectively.

Spinning was performed at a spinning temperature of 242 ° C. and spinning speed of 24 rpm using a 0.5 mm diameter die. The obtained non-drawn yarn was subjected to off-line stretching and heat treatment using a hot godet roll, and the stretching temperatures were performed three times at 150 ° C, 160 ° C, and 197 ° C, and the stretching speeds were 27m / min, 82m / min, and 130m, respectively. / min, 120m / min was carried out four times, the stretching ratio was 4.81.

Comparative Example 1. Preparation of 100% PBT Fiber

100% PBT fibers were prepared in the same manner as in Example 1, except that only PBT resin was used without using the PLA resin.

Experimental Example 1. Analysis of physical properties of PLA / PBT fiber

The PLA / PBT fibers and 100% PBT fibers prepared in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 were subjected to systematic structural analysis through SEM, DSC, and elongation test, and the results are shown in Table 1 and FIGS. 3 is shown.

Strength analysis results (FITI) 100% PBT 5/95 PLA / PBT 10/95 PLA / PBT 15/85 PLA / PBT 20/80 PLA / PBT The tensile strength
(MPa) 149.0 135.3 135.3 130.5 125.4 Elongation
(%) 55.4 58.2 61.3 51.6 59.0

Example 2. Tapering of PLA / PBT Monofilament

Example 1 One end of the PLA / PBT monofilament was immersed in 40 to 50% sodium hydroxide solution for about 5 mm, treated at 40 to 90 ° C. for 60 minutes, and then neutralized and washed with water.

Example 3 Taping of PLA Monofilament

Except for using PLA alone, one end of the PLA monofilament prepared in the same manner as in Example 1 was immersed for 5 mm in 40-50% sodium hydroxide solution and treated at 40-90 ° C. for 60 minutes. Then it was neutralized and washed with water.

Experimental Example 2 Morphology Analysis of Tapered Monofilament

The tapered monofilaments of Examples 2 and 3 were observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (JEOL Co .; JSM-6390; Au coating), and the results are shown in FIGS. 4 to 9.

Claims (7)

Monofilament, characterized in that the polylactic acid is prepared by melt-mixing by containing 5 to 25% by weight of polybutylene terephthalate. Method for producing a monofilament, characterized in that the polylactic acid containing 5 to 25% by weight compared to polybutylene terephthalate prepared by melt-mixing spinning. A method of producing a tapered monofilament, wherein one end of the monofilament of claim 1 is immersed in an alkaline solution of 40 to 50% (w / v) and reacted at 40 to 90 ° C. for 30 to 90 minutes. Tapered mono, characterized in that one end of the monofilament prepared by melt spinning polylactic acid is immersed in an alkaline solution of 40 to 50% (w / v) and reacted at 40 to 90 ° C. for 30 to 90 minutes. Method of making filament. Tapered monofilament made by the method of any one of claims 3 to 4. A toothbrush comprising the tapered monofilament of claim 5. A cosmetic brush comprising the tapered monofilament of claim 5.

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