Abstract
Nanocomposite polyacrylonitrile filaments containing titanium dioxide and silver nanoparticles were produced by wet-spinning method with the aim of developing multifunctional filaments showing antibacterial activity, photocatalytic activity, and electrical conductivity. The nanocomposite filaments were characterized regarding their morphology, composition, nanoparticle dispersion, tensile properties, crystallinity, conductivity, thermal properties, photocatalytic, and antibacterial activity. The nanoparticles were observed to be well dispersed. The composite filaments with 3 wt% silver nitrate showed improved crystallinity. The highest breaking tenacity of 8.72 cN/tex was observed for the filament with 1 wt% TiO2 and 3 wt% AgNO3. The conductivity of the nanocomposite filaments were on the order of 10−4 S/cm, which is in the semiconductive range. The nanocomposite filaments displayed both antibacterial and photocatalytic activity. This study showed the possibility of producing multifunctional filaments with the simultaneous addition of different types of nanoparticles into the filament structure.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1716-1738 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Journal of Industrial Textiles |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (Project 112M877) and Istanbul Technical University-Scientific Research Projects Department (BAP) (Project 37676).
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Istanbul Technical University-Scientific Research Projects Department | |
| TUBITAK | 112M877 |
| British Association for Psychopharmacology | 37676 |
| Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu |
Keywords
- Antibacterial
- electrical conductivity
- filament
- multifunctional
- nanocomposite
- photocatalytic
- polyacrylonitrile
- silver nitrate
- titanium dioxide