Structural and morphological evolution of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) samples from starting powder of a ternary copolymer to fibers produced from concentrated solutions of PAN in N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO) was studied using x-ray diffraction for the first time. X-ray exposures in transmission and reflection geometries allowed the structures of outer and inner parts of the PAN fibers to be differentiated. It was shown that a shell—core structure formed in the precipitation bath during fiber spinning. A comparison of x-ray diffraction patterns of fibers spun using the NMMO process and industrial samples spun from DMSO and aqueous sodium thiocyanate solutions did not reveal fundamental structural differences.
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Translated from Khimicheskie Volokna, No. 6, pp. 33-37, November—December, 2018.
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Makarov, I.S., Golova, L.K., Vinogradov, M.I. et al. Structure of Polyacrylonitrile Fibers Produced from N-Methylmorpholine-N-Oxide Solutions. Fibre Chem 50, 508–513 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10692-019-10020-9
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