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Carbonization of oriented poly(vinyl alcohol) fibers impregnated with potassium bisulfate

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The structural transformationss of oriented poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) fibers impregnated with potassium bisulfate (PBS) were studied in detail on the way from PVA precursor fibers till carbonized at a temperature of 1000 °C fibers. It has been shown that the impregnation of PVA fibers with a sulfur-containing compound (PBS) is an efficient technique to decrease the thermoplasticity of PVA fibers during heat treatment at high temperatures in air and argon and contributes to a high yield of coke residue after heat treatment up to 1000 °C. TMA, TGA, DSC, mass spectrometry, FTIR, Raman spectroscopy, SEM, WAXS and SAXS were used to study the structural transformations of oriented PVA fibers impregnated with PBS at the stages of their preliminary thermal stabilization (215 °C), thermal stabilization (215–400 °C) and carbonization (400–1000 °C). A reaction scheme has been proposed that fully describes carbonization chemistry in the entire studied temperature range. The processing temperature of 215 °C was found to be optimal for preliminary thermal stabilization of PVA fibers impregnated with PBS. The heat treatment in an inert medium can be recommended as the optimal for thermal stabilization of fibers impregnated with PBS. The characteristics of the carbonized PVA fibers, such as strength, modulus and electrical conductivity, were close to the characteristics of commercial cellulose-based carbon fibers yarns.

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This study was funded by Enikolopov Institute of Synthetic Polymeric Materials RAS according to the Research Project # 115060840012.

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    Diana Petkieva, Alexander Ozerin, Tikhon Kurkin, Eugenii Golubev & Alexander Zelenetskii

  2. Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, V.O. Bolshoy pr. 31, St., Petersburg, 199004, Russia

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Petkieva, D., Ozerin, A., Kurkin, T. et al. Carbonization of oriented poly(vinyl alcohol) fibers impregnated with potassium bisulfate. Carbon Lett. 30, 637–650 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42823-020-00135-z

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