Structural and Morphological Properties of Free Base Porphyrin Doped Colored Electrospun Polyvinyl Alcohol and Polyacrylonitrile Nanofibers
摘要
Although there have been many recent studies on the functional applications of cluster-based polyacrylonitrile (PAN) polymer nanofibers (NFs), there are few studies on their color properties. In this study, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and PAN polymers were doped with 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-tert butylphenyl)porphyrin, free base porphyrin derivative, respectively, and PVA-porphyrin (PVA-P) and PAN-porphyrin (PAN-P) NFs were produced by electrospinning. The morphological and structural properties of the obtained NFs were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetric analysis. NFs were also evaluated according to their colors. The analyses demonstrated that the porphyrin monomers in the electrospun NFs bonded to PAN more successfully than PVA. Porphyrin-doped PAN NFs produced under different optimization conditions exhibited different color tones as a result of electrospinning, and FTIR analysis results also supported the color analysis results. It was observed that PAN-P and PAN-P2 NFs exhibited the most successful cross-linking to the polymer with the characteristic peaks of porphyrin at 802