Acrylic fibers, also known as PAC or PAN, consist of at least 85% of the monomer acrylonitrile. The comonomers methyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate and vinyl acetate are also used.
Acrylic fibers are used both as textile fibers and in technical form and as precursors for the production of carbon fibers. Depending on the required property profile, acrylic fibers are produced in a dry spinning process or a wet spinning process.
Acrylic filaments have a thickness of 10-40 µm in diameter and, depending on the spinning process, a round or kidney-shaped fiber form.
Acrylic fibers have a high biological and chemical resistance to a variety of solvents, alkalis and acids. Acrylic nitrile fibers are particularly characterized by their high UV resistance. This makes them ideal for outdoor applications exposed to direct sunlight.
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Acrylic fibers are produced by copolymerizing at least 85% acrylonitrile with predominantly methyl methacrylate, methyl acrylate or vinyl acetate. The polymerization mainly takes place as solvent polymerization in DMF or DMSO, or as emulsion polymerization. In the next step, filaments can be produced using either the dry spinning process or the wet spinning process. While the dry spinning process mainly produces kidney-shaped and bone-shaped fibers, the wet spinning process tends to produce round fibers. The filaments are then washed, stretched and further processed into spinning cables or staple fibers.
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