When 6-nylon fibers were treated with ceric salt in aqueous acetic acid, the successive first order reactions (A_??_B_??_C) occurred where A is Ce
IV in the solution, B is Ce
IV adsorbed on nylon and C is Ce
III produced by reduction of adsorbed Ce
IV. The decrease in the concentration of Ce
IV in solution and the amount of Ce
IV adsorbed were determined by titration from which the amount of Ce
IV reduced was calculated. The rate constants of adsorption and reduction of Ce
IV (k
1 and k
2) were obtained from the initial rates of the decrease of Ce
IV in solution and the maximum value of Ce
IV adsorbed. When the treatment was done in the presence of methyl methacrylate (MMA), the rates of decrease of Ce
IV in solution, adsorption and reduction decreased and the maximum value of Ce
IV adsorbed increased. It was considered that graft copolymerization took place when monomers were present in the reaction medium, on the other hand, when monomers were absent the nylon radicals formed were further oxidized. Application of Langmuir's isotherm equation to the system investigated showed that the adsorption of Ce
IV per repeating unit of nylon was two.
Graft copolymerization of vinyl monomers (mainly MMA) onto nylon fibers pretreated with Ce
IV followed by centrifugal separation was carried out in aqueous acetic acid. Effects of various reaction variables on the graft-on, molecular weight of the graft polymer and the number of grafting were studied. Methyl acrylate graft-copolymerized the most among the monomers used.
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