Segment-block poly (ester-ether)s were prepared by the copolycondensations of poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) prepolymer, polyethylene glycol (PEG), and mono-p-nonylphenylether of PEG (PON). Three PEGs having different molecular weight, ie., 4, 000 (PEG(4)), 10, 000 (PEG(10)), and 20, 000 (PEG(20)), were utilized with an equal PET/PEG/PON composition of 94/4/2 in weight. The copolymers obtained were found to be terminated by the mono-functional PON segments and to have an almost random sequence of the PEG segments. In the polymers, therefore, little amount of PEO-rich, ethanol-soluble oligomer was involved. The copolymers were then mixed with polymer chips of PET in 1:1 weight ratio, and the blend fibers were spun by the conventional melt-spinning technique. The as-spun fibers were stretched by 4.0 fold in length. The spinnability and the drawability were as high as those of the homo-PET fiber. The antistatic property of the fibers was evaluated by half-life-time of leakage of electrostatic charge
t1/2. The value for the blend fibers was in the range of 0.6-3.0 sec, being much shorter than those for the PET fibers blended with PEG alone and the PET-PEG block copolymer (eg., 20-60 sec). After the fibers had been washed in a boiling water for 1hr, the
t1/2 value of the former fiber increased to 4-20 sec, indicating a slight deterioration of the property. However, the resistivity against washing for the present blend fiber was much higher than that of the fiber blended with PEO alone due to the stronger anchoring effect of the PEO component copolymerized with PET. The higher antistatic property of the blend PET fibers comprising PET-PEG-PON copolymers was ascribed to the larger phase separation of the block copolymers in the fiber matrix, as observed by the cross sectional SEM micrography of the fibers.
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