Preparation of Comb-Like Amphiphilic Styrene Maleic Anhydride Copolymer Derivatives and Their Modification to Surface of Chrome-Tanned Collagen Fiber

摘要

A series of comb-like amphiphilic surfactants of sodium salts of fatty alcohol polyoxyvinethene monoester, i.e., SMA-g-O-3, SMA-g-O-6, SMA-g-O-10, SMA-g-O-15 and SMA-g-O-20, were prepared through the esterifica-tion modification to styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer (SMA) using fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether in dimethylformamide(DMF). The products of esterification modification were characterized by FTIR and GPC analysis, and the esterification reaction rate was calculated by measuring the acid values of SMA and its esterification product. Then, sodium salts of those esterification substances were applied to the leather retaining and fatliquoring process to study their effects on hydrophobicity of the treated leather fiber, such as static Water Contact Angle (WCA) on the leather surface and water absorption of the treated leather. Results showed that all the esterification rates were more than 90 %; moreover, both the WCA and water absorption of the processed chrome-tanned collagen fibers were related to the number of oxyethyl groups in the fatty alcohol polyoxyethylene ether. WCA decreases and water absorption increases instead with augmentation of the oxyethyl group number.