MESOPOROUS AND NANOCOMPOSITE FIBROUS MATERIALS BASED ON POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) FIBERS WITH HIGH CRAZE DENSITY VIA ENVIRONMENTAL CRAZING: PREPARATION, STRUCTURE, AND APPLIED PROPERTIESстатья
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Аннотация:Preparation of mesoporous and nanocomposite
fibrous polymer materials based on commercial poly(ethylene
terephthalate) (PET) fibers with high density of crazes (HCD
fibers) via environmental crazing (EC) is described. Multiple
crazes in pristine PET fibers were initiated by the precrazing
procedure, and the density of the initiated crazes in the
starting HCD fibers is equal to ∼200 crazes per mm. The
scenario of environmental crazing of the HCD PET fibers was
studied by online microscopic observations. The mechanism
of environmental crazing of the HCD fibers is found to be
different from the classical well-known scheme: new crazes are
initiated over a broad interval of tensile strains of up to 250%, splitting of thin craze walls takes place, and the collapse of the
fibrillar-porous structure of crazes is prevented. The HCD fibers preserve their porosity even upon the complete removal of the
physically active liquid environment from the volume of crazes. As a result, the overall porosity of the HCD fibers can reach ∼60
vol % and pore dimensions are estimated to be below ∼6 nm. Applied properties of the mesoporous HCD fibers (gas storage
potential, sorption, insulating properties) are studied. The bottom-up synthesis of silver nanoparticles in the mesoporous HCD
fibers via reduction of silver ions is described, and the resultant silver-containing nanocomposite fibers are characterized by a
uniform distribution of silver nanoparticles with an average size of 3 nm. The silver content in the HCD fibers is 6 times higher
than that in the pristine PET fibers with the same tensile strain. The silver-loaded fibers show high bactericidal activity against
Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) and Gram-negative bacteria (Escherichia coli) and antifungal activity against Candida
guilliermondii. The proposed EC approach allows preparation of sustainable mesoporous polymeric fibers and related functional
nanocomposite materials with valuable functional properties for diverse applications.