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2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates The Study of structures of silk fibers grafted with hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate ZHANG Jun, CHEN Guo-qiang* (Institute of Material Engineering, Soochow Uinversity, Suzhou Jiangsu 215021, China) Abstract The relationship between the graft yield and the effect of hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate graft treatment on the structural changes of the silk fibers was studied on the basis of the results of scanning electron micrograph photographs(SEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), Raman spectrum, wide-angle X-ray diffraction patterns(WAXD), nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) and amion acid analysis. The results showed that the crystalline regions of grafted fibers were hardly affected and the fiber fission occurred on the cross sections of grafted fibers. The surface of fibers was covered with a high polymer film. The Raman spectrum showed there was little change in the conformation of grafted fibers which mainly remained β-sheet conformation. The IR of the grafted silk fibers showed new absorption of bands occurred which belonged to the stretching- vibration-absorption-peak bands of VC=O and VC-F of aliphatic ester species. The CF3—,—CF2— and —CFH— structures of grafted silk macromolecule were verified in the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum(NMR). The amion acid analysis indicated fluoride monomers were inclined to graft with TYR, ARG and GLU of silk fibers. Keywords: silk fiber; graft; hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate; structure In recent years, some modern testing techniques are applied to show the structural changes of ungrafted and grafted silks, such as ZHANG You-zhu who used X-ray diffraction patterns, X-ray dispersion energy spectrum and infrared spectroscopy(IR) to show the changes of configurations and properties of ungrafted fibroin films and grafted fibroin films using acrylate as monomer[1], LIU Jian-hong who used infrared spectroscopy(IR) and Raman spectrum to study the conformation changes of the grafting of methyl methacrylate onto fibroin fibers in the absence of initiators[2], Kawahara who used scanning electron micrograph photographs and Raman spectrum to study structure of silk fibers grafted with Methacryamide(Mma) [3], Tsukada who used scanning electron micrograph photographs, infrared spectroscopy(IR), X-ray diffraction patterns and * Corresponding author:ZHANG Jun, The Study of structures of silk fibers grafted with hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate, Institute of Material Engineering, Soochow Uinversity,email:[email protected] 1 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates birefringence(△n) to show the changes of configuration structure and aggregation state of silk fabrics grafted with methyl methacrylate and methyl propylacidamide respectively, as well as someone who used the amion acid analysis to study the structural changes of silk fabrics grafted with epoxy resin and diethylene glycol dimethacrylate respectively, et al[4,5,6]. In this article, the configuration and aggregation state structure of silk fibers grafted with hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate was studied on the basis of the results of scanning electron micrograph photographs(SEM), infrared spectroscopy (IR), Raman spectrum, wide-angle X-ray diffraction patterns(WAXD), nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) and amion acid analysis. In addition, the locations and characteristics of graft crosslinking of monomer onto silk fibers was also discussed. 1 Experimental materials and methods 1.1 Experimental materials Scoured silk fibers(21/22 dtex, the rate of degumming 25%) was used as grafting substrate, purchased from ZheJiang HaoYunLai printing and dyeing Company Ltd. 1.2 Chemical reagents hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate (Actyflon-G02, XueJia Fluoride and Silicon Chemicals Company Ltd), potassium persulfate (KPS), acetone, formic acid,alkyl hydroxidealkyl fullfluoro octanesulphuracylammonium (DF-10), emulsifier( span 20, tween 80), all above of chemicals were of laboratory-reagent grade. Polyoxyethylenealiphatic alcohol ether was of industrial grade. 1.3 Grafting procedure Firstly, emulsified water solution containing different required components was prepared, that is, the concentration of monomer(100%, owf), DF-10(15%, owm), span 20 (10%, owm) and tween 80 (10%, owm). The solution was stirred at the high speed of 10000~11000 r/min for 30 min, then put the dried and weighed ungrafted silk fibers into the reaction system at necessary pH value(3, adjusted with acetic acid) and the material-to-liquor ratio of 1:50 was maintained. The temperature was gradually raised to the desired value (70℃)in 30min and then maintained constant for required reaction time(2 h). At the end of the reaction silk fibers was extracted for 8 h at 70℃ with extractor containing a large amount of acetone in order to remove the homopolymers of the surface of silk fibers, then rinsed with distilled water and dried at 105℃ for 2h. Samples were placed in a dehumidifier over silica gel for 24 h before measurements. Finally the samples were weighed and measured. The grafting yield was calculated according to the following formula: Gy = (m1 - m0) /m0×100% where m1 is the weight of the grafted sample; m0, the weight of original sample. 1.4 Measuring methods 1.4.1 Scanning electron micrograph photographs(SEM) The grafted fibers were mounted on specimen holders using electron conduction tape. The samples were coated with gold in an ion sputter coater (S-570, Hitachi, Japan) in a low vacuum. The observation was made in a 2 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates Hitachi, S-570, electron microscope at an accelerating potential of 15 kV. 1.4.2 Infrared spectroscopy(IR) The FTIR spectra of the grafted fiber using the KBr disk technique were recorded with a NICOLET5700 FTIR spectrophotometer under dried air in the spectral region of 4000~500 cm-1. 1.4.3 Raman spectrum The samples were cut into powders and then analyzed on the Raman spectrum meter(HR800, JY Company, France). 1.4.4 X-ray diffraction patterns(WAXD) The samples were cut into powders and then tested on the model D/Max-ⅢC (Japan) instrument. The laboratory conditions are as follows: CuKα(λ=0.1542nm),equivalent electricity current(30mA), equivalent voltage(40 kV), the scanning speed (2(°)/min). 1.4.5 Nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR) The samples were cut into powders and then analyzed on the solid nuclear magnetic resonance meter(Braker Company,Germany). 1.4.6 Amino acid analysis The grafted silk were hydrolyzed by heating them in 6N hydrochloric acid at 110℃ for 24h. During the hydrolysis treatment, contents of silk in the hydrochloric acid solution were kept constant. An undissolved residue of the silk was filtered off from the hydrolysates. The amino acid contents in the hydrolysates were determined by using an amino acid analysis(L=835-50, Hitachi Ltd.). 2 Results and discussions 2. 1 the surface, lengthwise and cross-sectional configurations of grafted silk fibers 2.1. 1 the surface configurations of grafted silk fibers AS is shown in figure 1, the letters a,b,c and d were represented as different surface configurations electron micrograph photographs of silk fibers with diverse graft yield, and with the increase of graft yield, the surface of fibers became tighter relatively, therefore, the gas permeability of fabrics decreased with the increase of graft yield(shown in table 1).The reason was that the increase of graft yield would lead to the increase of monomers grafted with the silk macromolecule, which added to side chains of silk macromolecule, as a result, the chain of macromolecule became lengthened, while the grafting reaction mainly occurred inside the amorphous region of fibers which would fill in the amorphous region and make it tighter. In addition, another reason was that the appearance of longitudinal shrinkage and the increase of latitudinal density occurred during grafting process for silk fibers. Table 1 the effect of different graft yield on the gas permeability of silk fibers(unit:cc/cm2/sec) The type of fabrics Graft yield (%) The amount of ventilation Ungrafted grafted with hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate 0 91.80 9.36 99.23 3 38.78 63.69 52.45 59.84 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates a ungrafted b 9.36% c 38.78% d 52.45% Figure 1 surface configurations SEM photographs of silk fibers with diverse graft yield (magnification:200) 2.1. 2 the lengthwise configuration of silk fibers a ungrafted b 9.36% c 38.78% d 52.45% Figure 2 lengthwise configurations SEM photographs of silk fibers with diverse graft yield (magnification: 1.00K) AS is observed in figure 2, compared with ungrafted common silk fibers,the surface of silk fiber with graft yield of 9.36% (seen from figure 2, b) was smooth and changed hardly. While the presence few granules appeared on the surface of silk fiber with graft yield of 38.78%(seen from figure 2, c) [7], and with the increase of graft yield the granules became more which almost formed a film completely covered with the surface of fibers(seen from figure 2, d). Because this high polymer film can withstand heat-resistance water treatment and extraction for a long time in the presence of active surfactants, hence it was tightly combined depending on physical reaction and chemical bondings. 2.1. 3 the cross-sectional configuration of silk fibers a ungrafted b 9.36% c 38.78% d 52.45% Figure 3 cross-sectional configurations SEM photographs of silk fibers with diverse graft yield (magnification: 5.00K) AS is shown in figure 3, after being grafted with monomer,the cross-section of fibers became wider and be provided with more fullness of handle, at the same time, the diameter of fibers became bigger and with the increase of graft yield the appearance of separating fibers on the surface became more evident(seen from figure 3, b,c,d). This split was probably due to soluble swollen, fission and stripping effects of fibers during grafting process. Therefore, silk fibers possessed obvious characteristic of tiny cavities and the cross-section 4 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates of fibers exhibited reticulation distribution. Moreover,the reaction of fissions would also increase tiny cavities of interior of fibers, enhancing water absorbency, strengthening the hindering properties of air and further improving the warm-keeping property of fabrics. 2. 2 the measuring analysis of Infrared spectroscopy(IR) b Transmittance(%) a 1747.7 1068.1 c 891.6 640.0 839.8 621.1 719.6 684.0 1406.7 1384.4 1289.8 1753.2 1449.4 3300.2 1267.2 1701.9 1658.7 4000 3500 3000 1104.3 1167.3 1188.7 1233.9 2500 2000 1516.3 1500 1000 500 -1 Wavenumbers(cm ) a:ungrafted ;b:graft yield 29.21%;c:graft yield 54.85% Figure 4 Infrared spectroscopy(IR) of silk fibers with diverse graft yield AS is seen from figure 4, the characteristic absorption of bands appeared in the IR of grafted and ungrafted fibroin fibers, such as acylammonium Ⅰ (VC=O1658cm-1), acylammonium Ⅱ ( δ N-H1516cm-1), acylammonium Ⅲ (VC-N1230 cm-1 ~ 1261 cm-1) , acylammoniumⅤ(δN-H 684cm-1~698 cm-1) [8,9], which showed that the grafted silk still took on the β-sheet chain structure of fibroin. The new absorption of bands appeared at the wave bands of 1747 cm-1~1753 cm-1 and 1289 cm-1~1302 cm-1 respectively in the IR of grafted silk fibers, which belonged to the stretching- vibration-absorption-peak bands of VC=O and VC-F of aliphatic esters. Furthermore, the new absorption of 1189 cm-1 bands appeared in the IR of grafted silk fibers, simultaneously, the absorption of 1261 cm-1 bands in the IR of ungrafted silk fibers shifted to lower wavenumbers probably caused by the -CH2-CH2- bond of the grafting of monomers of crylic acid species onto silk fibers[10]. In addition, the outer-surface distortion stretching- vibration-absorption-peakδN-H of acylammoniumⅤ of ungrafted silk fibers also shifted to lower wavenumbers(684.0 cm-1)after being grafted. A probable reason was that when the monomers of crylic acid species grafted onto silk fibers the grafting point was at -N- atom that reduced the combination of hydrogen bond of N-O atoms. The combinations of hydrogen bond made the stretching- vibration-absorption-peak shift to lower wavenumbers and the bending stretching- vibration-absorption-peakδ N-H shift to higher wavenumbers. At the same time,the new absorption of bands of the IR of grafted silk fibers appeared in fingerprint area, probably owing to the outer-surface bending stretchingvibration-absorption-peakδC-H of -CH2- and -CH2-CH2- groups produced by the grafting reaction. 2. 3 the measuring analysis of Raman spectrum Raman spectrum was applied to the study of configuration and conformation of polymers and copolymers, which is an effective tool for studying multi-peptide and the second-structure 5 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates of proteins. We could observe the Raman spectrums of ungrafted and grafted fibers from figure 5 to figure 7. Figure 5 the Raman spectrum of ungrafted fiber Figure 7 Figure 6 the Raman spectrum of grafted fiber (The graft yield was 8.63 %) the Raman spectrum of grafted fiber (The graft yield was 31.55 %) The fibroins took on three conformations under different conditions, viz., irregular clew, α -helix, β -sheet. The different conformations of fibroins possessed characteristic absorption spectrum bands in their Raman spectrums and could change with the variations of heat-treating conditions, stress and chemical reaction conditions. The different characteristic absorption peaks that occurred in figure 5, figure 6 and figure 7 were illustrated in table 2. Table 2 the measuring analysis of Raman spectrum of ungrafted and grafted fibers The characteristic absorption peaks (cm-1) ungrafted Graft yield (8.63%) Graft yield (29.21%) 1676 or 1630(acylammonium I)(β-sheet) 1667.58 1665.82 1669.35 1615(acylammonium II)(α-helix / irregular clew) 1618.07 1616.31 1614.540 1230 (acylammonium III)( β-sheet) 1225.54 1229.08 1230.84 1267.98 1266.21 1271.51 642.04 643.81 645.58 1450.10 1450.10 1453.63 1319.25 none none none none weak very weak 1400.59 1400.59 1252 or 1270 (acylammonium III) (α-helix / irregular clew) 650(acylammoniumⅤ)(α-helix / irregular clew) 1450 (CH distortion vibration) 1319.25(C-N stretching vibration of second-level amine) 1754.22(C=O stretching vibration of ester group) 1400.59(including C-F stretching vibration) The data of table 2 suggested that ungrafted fibroin fibers mainly took onβ-sheet 6 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates conformation (1667.58 cm-1) including little irregular clew and α -helix conformation (1618.07 cm-1, 1267.98 cm-1, 642.04 cm-1). After be chemically modified, the fibers still mainly assumed β-sheet conformation (1665.82cm-1 or 1669.35 cm-1) [11]and the intensities of absorption peaks were sharply weakened, while the irregular clew and α -helix conformation increased with the increase of graft yield and the intensities of absorption peaks were evidently strengthened, which made the orientation degree of macromolecules of fibroins decline[12]. The main reason for this phenomenon was that the introduction of molecules of crylic acid monomers onto the chains of fibroin macromolecules interfered with nearness of macromolecule chains and made the arrangements of macromolecule chains become loose, disorderly and curled. In addition,as was known from Raman spectrum, there was an absorption peak (1319.25 -1 cm ) in the spectrums of ungrafted fibroins. But after being grafted, this peak disappeared, while according to the Amino acid analysis testing reports of grafted silks, the contents of basic amino acid (ARG) and hydroxyl amino acid (TYR) relatively reduced more. Accordingly it could be concluded that the absorption peak at 1319.25 cm-1 should be the C-N stretching- vibration absorption peak of second-level amine ( R’NHR). Moreover, with the increase of graft yield, a weak absorption peak gradually appeared at 1754.22 cm-1, which could be infered to be C=O stretching- vibration absorption peak of ester group produced during graft reactions. For further observation of Raman spectrum, the original absorption peak at 1400.59 cm-1 in the spectrum of ungrafted fibers enhanced obviously with the increase of graft yield. The reason was probable that after being grafted the existence of C-F stretching- vibration absorption peak further strengthened the original absorption peak intensity at 1400.59 cm-1. 2. 4 the measuring analysis of X-ray diffraction patterns c Relative Intensity b a 10 20 30 40 2θ/(°) a:ungrafted;b:graft yield (8.63%);c:graft yield (29.21%) figure 8 the X-ray diffraction patterns of grafted fibers with different graft yield As was obviously seen from figure 8, the main X-ray diffraction peaks of ungrafted and grafted fibers all appeared at 20.05°, which was the characteristic peak of fibroins withβ -sheet structure. The X-ray diffraction peaks of grafted fibers with different graft yield were similar to ungrafted fibers. The testing results indicated that the crystalline regions of grafted fibers were hardly affected, which showed that the grafting reaction mainly occurred in the amorphous areas of silk fibers[13]. Moreover, a small and wide diffraction peak also appeared at 10°in the form of shoulder peak . This peak was more obvious at the higher graft yield 7 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates and it could be inferred that the peak was connected with the graftiong copolymerization of monomers and interior macromolecules of fibers. 2.5 Amino acid analysis According to table 3, after being grafted, the relative percentage of some Amino acids all decreased to different degrees, such as ASP, GLU, THR, LYS, HIS, ARG, TYR and so on, especially the latter two, While the relative percentage of GLY increased, which showed that some Amino acids of crystalline regions,for example GLY, possessed lower reactive activity and didn’t get involved in grafting reaction. The reaction mainly occurred on the reactive groups of some Amino acids of amorphous areas, such as TYR, ARG, GLU, etc. The hydroxyl, amido, carboxyl and imine groups of these Amino acids could act as the center of reactive activities under different conditions. The grafting polymerization began with the remnant groups of Amino acids as starting points[14], which didn’t occur on the peptide backbone chain of protein molecules but on the αcarbon atoms of adjacent locations of polar groups of side chains. F or TYR, owing to electron conjugation effect, the center of reaction transferred to theαcarbon atoms of benzene ring and the activation energy of produced free radicals was minimal and stable, hence this kind of Amino acid was consumed more. Table 3 the relative percentage of Amino acids of silk fibers after or before being grafted the relative percentage of Amino acids(%) Ungrafted Graft yield(8.63%) Graft yield(54.85%) ASP THR SER GLU GLY ALA CYS VAL MET ILE LEU TYR PHE LYS NH3 HIS ARG PRO TOTAL 2.40 1.05 12.49 2.08 33.35 29.46 0.50 2.77 0.14 0.85 0.65 10.63 1.18 0.66 0.36 0.26 0.88 0.27 100 2.37 1.03 12.51 2.07 34.00 29.45 0.47 2.76 0.17 0.84 0.61 10.49 1.18 0.59 0.39 0.24 0.51 0.33 100 2.36 0.99 12.55 2.02 34.60 29.10 0.51 2.75 0.16 0.82 0.58 10.03 1.16 0.74 0.42 0.24 0.53 0.43 100 2.6 the measuring analysis of Nuclear magnetic resonance In common cases, the magnetic sensitivity of non-proton nucleus is inferior to that of proton nucleus. Moreover, the natural fullness of non-proton magnetic nucleus of most compounds is also inferior to that of proton nucleus and the phenomenon of self-spinning coupling is not easy to occur. The above two factors make the Signal-to-Noise of non-proton 8 2006 International Forum on Textile Science and Engineering for Doctoral Candidates -215.71 -122.51 -78.16 nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum very low. Therefore, when the used instrument is similar to the instrument for measuring proton spectrum, the spectrum peak of non-proton nuclear is very small and even can’t be seen. Consequently, the silk samples with higher graft yield were chosen for measuring. Sample’1 19F 20KHZ 80 40 0 -40 -80 -120 -160 -200 -240 -280 -320 (ppm) Figure 9 the nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum (19F) of grafted fibers (graft yield, 54.85%) In figure 9, the chemical shift of the 19F nucleus was 300ppm or so and there were three group peaks in spectrum, and the chemical shifts of three group peaks were -78.16ppm, -215.71ppm and -122.51ppm respectively. But the absorption peak at chemical shift of -122.51ppm was very weak just because there were three different chemical surroundings for F nucleus in the molecular structure of monomer. In individual surrounding, the spectrum peaks of various F nucleuses we observed were different owing to the difference of electron screen. But the obvious fissions of each group peak didn’t appear mainly because the self-spinning coupling of non-proton magnetic nuclear was not easy to occur and could hardly affect chemical shift mutually. In accordance with the molecular structure of monomer and the peak area and chemical shift of each absorption peak group, it could be concluded that the chemical shifts of -78.16ppm, -215.71ppm and -122.51ppm represented the structures of CF3 — , — CF2 — and —CFH — of macromolecules of grafted fibers respectively, which indicated the monomers has reacted with the active side-chain groups of the backbone chains of silk macromolecules. 3. Conclusions After being grafted with hexafluorobutyl mathacrylate, the surface configuration of silk fibers became tighter and the cross-section became wider, even leading to the appearance of separating fibers with higher graft yield, in addition, a highpolymer thin film was completely covered with the surface of fibers. By the measuring analysis of infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectrum, there was little change in the conformation of grafted fibers which mainly remained β-sheet conformation. But in the IR of the grafted silk fibers new absorption peaks occurred which were caused by the stretching vibrations of VC=O and VC-F of aliphatic ester species. The grafting reaction mainly occurred in the amorphous areas and the crystalline regions were hardly affected. The CF3—,—CF2— and —CFH—sturcture of grafted silk macromolecule was verified in the NMR spectrum. 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