Abstract:
In order to investigate the spinnability and processing performance of the photocatalytic functional polypropylene (PP) fiber, SiO
2 coated modified nano-TiO
2 particles (SiO
2@TiO
2) were used as additive and PP was modified by blending firstly. Then, the extensional rheological properties of SiO
2@TiO
2/PP blend melts were tested by capillary rheometer, and the influences of SiO
2@TiO
2 on the properties of PP were studied by XRD and DSC. The results demonstrate that the SiO
2@TiO
2/PP blend melts belong to the fluids of extensional thinning type. With the increasing of temperature, both of the extensional stress and extensional viscosity of melts decrease; extensional viscosity increases with the increasing of additive amount, and extensional flow activation energy reduces with the increasing of extensional strain rate. The addition of SiO
2@TiO
2 does not change the crystalline structure of PP significantly, but enhance the performance of crystallization. When the content of SiO
2@TiO
2 is 4wt%, the crystallinity of the blend melt is 8.6% higher than that of pure PP. SiO
2@TiO
2 leads PP to form more compact crystal structure, which has important influences on the properties of materials.