玉米纤维的研究进展

我国为世界上位居第二位的玉米产量大国,研究和发展玉米纤维在我国具有重大意义。但是,玉米纤维的研究和开发在国际上处于初期阶段,还存在一些问题,如规模小,成本高,进入市场的产品极少,因此降低成本是为要务。为此,通过研究玉米纤维概况、技术路线(包括纤维原料高分子聚丙交酯的合成研究等)和性能,认为玉米纤维具有透明度高,热稳定性好,着色性能好,完全生物降解等特性,具备生态循环特点,是一种新型的可持续发展的绿色环保纤维,可以从聚合与成型等方面进行系统研究和技术攻关。

Advances in the Corn Fibers

Corn fiber is a concept proposed in 1948,which involves in the polymeric fiber that made from corn as the raw material, and it was turned to lactic acid, transformed into lactide, and polymerized to polylactide or polylactic acid. Since that, some progresses have been made. However, the feature of corn fiber is determined by the molecular weight of polylactide. In general, corn fiber is formed by means of the melt-textile or no-hydrous textile. The situations, technologies, properties of the corn fibers are reviewed, as well as the processing about lactide synthesis, lactide condensation polymerization. It has some professional properties, such as high transparency, well-heat-resistant stability, well-colors, and full biodegradability, as well as the feature in ecological recycle. These means the corn fibers are new-typical and green, full-environmental fibers, especially for China as the second great number of the products of corn. Research and development of corn fibers are launched off in the world. Some problems existes in the corn fiber manufactured field are to be evolved, which are small scale, high cast, little of end-products enrolled in the market. So is down the cast of corn fiber manufactured as the very important works. This means that systemic studies of the fiberous polymerization and processing are crucial and highlighted to in this field.