Alkali reduction and reactive dye dyeing of T/N nonwoven fabrics dipped into silicon‐containing, water‐borne polyurethane

Abstract

Two series of anionic water-borne polyurethanes with alkali resistance and covalent bonds of a reactive dye were synthesized with different molar ratios of poly(tetramethylene glycol) (PTMG). They were classified with respect to PTMG 1000 and PTMG 2000. The fiber blends of polyester/nylon nonwoven fabrics were dipped into siliconcontaining, water-borne polyurethane and squeezed to an 80% pickup ratio. Finally, the manmade leather was treated with alkali reduction and dyed with a reactive dye. The alkali reduction and the thermal, mechanical, and dyeing properties of the manmade leather were studied. For alkali reduction, different ratios of NaOH and Na 2 CO 3 concentrations were used. Na 2 CO 3 was used because of its better spreading and buffering properties. The softness and breaking load were measured and related to the weight reduction. For the dyeing properties, a reactive dye with vinyl sulfone groups was found to bond with the OH group of waterborne polyurethane by covalent bonding. On the basis of alkali reduction, a mixture of NaOH and Na 2 CO 3 with a concentration ratio of 0.1N/0.2N could lead to better softness and alkali reduction of leather. For the mechanical properties, leather of the PTMG 1000 series showed a higher breaking load than leather of the PTMG 2000 series. However, less elongation in the PTMG 1000 series resulted. Differential scanning calorimetry showed an endothermic peak at 50 -100°C. This indicated that the glass-transition temperature of the hard segment decreased with an increasing amount of the soft segment in leather; meanwhile, both the glass-transition temperature of the soft segment and the melting temperature of the hard segment also decreased as the content of the soft segment increased. For the dyeing properties, the reactive blue dye could reach up to 96.1% dye uptake in the polyurethane part of the leather. Moreover, the washing fastness could be graded as high as 4 -5, and the light resistance was also graded to 4 -5, in the dyed leather.

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