Acrylic Fiber Applications
Setting the Pattern for Performance
AMPS® monomer imparts a number of enhanced performance characteristics to acrylic, modified-acrylic, polypropylene and polyvinylidine fluoride fibers:
- Improved dye receptivity (derived from pendant sulfonate groups)
- Richer color
- Enhanced moisture absorbency
- Increased process cleanliness and efficiency
- Improved tensile strength
- Improved static resistance
As an added benefit, the incorporation of AMPS monomer in one side of a bicomponent acrylic fiber produces a product with a natural crimp.
Copolymers of AMPS monomer also can be padded onto cotton or starch to increase water absorbency, after being coprecipitated from viscose solutions.