Liquid oxide coated fibers

Production of phenol and acetone is based on liquid-phase oxidation of isopropylbenzene. Synthetic fatty acids and fatty alcohols for producing surfactants, terephthalic, adipic, and acetic acids used in producing synthetic and artificial fibers, a variety of solvents for the petroleum and coatings industries—these and other important products are obtained by liquid-phase oxidation of organic compounds. Oxidation processes comprise many parallel and sequential macroscopic and unit (or very simple) stages. The active centers in oxidative chain reactions are various free radicals, differing in structure and in reactivity, so that the nomenclature of these labile particles is constantly changing as oxidation processes are clarified by the appearance in the reaction zone of products which are also involved in the complex mechanism of these chemical conversions. 

FIGURE 6-18 Example of oxide fiber coatings deposited via the immiscible liquid coating technique (ErTa04-... 

At the current time, liquid precursor (solution/sol/slurry) coating techniques have been the most successful for the deposition of oxides, such as monazite (LaP04) and porous oxides (carbon-oxide mixtures) onto oxide fiber tows [178, 179, 191, 192]. Atypical fiber coater is shown in Figure 10a [193]. In the coating process, a lighter, immiscible liquid is floated on the surface of the coating precursor. The immiscible liquid is used to remove excess sol from the coated tow and it allows for the coating of individual filaments with... 

Coatings can be deposited on carbon fibers either from liquid precursors, e.g., organometallic species or sols, or from gaseous precursors, e.g., by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or infiltration (CVI). For example, a silica coating deposited from tetraethylorthosilicate lowers the oxidation rate of carbon fiber at 650°C by a factor of 5 and at 430°C by a factor of 30 [68]. Likewise, a 50 nm thick B4C or SiC coating deposited by reactive CVD significantly lowers the oxidation rate of carbon fibers [69]. 

Electrical properties have been reported on numerous carbon fiber-reinforced polymers, including carbon nanoflber-modified thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers [53], low-density polyethylene [54], ethylene vinyl acetate [55], wire coating varnishes [56], polydimethyl siloxane polypyrrole composites [50], polyacrylonitrile [59], polycarbonate [58], polyacrylonitrile-polycarbonate composites [58], modified chrome polymers [59], lithium trifluoromethane sulfonamide-doped polystyrene-block copolymer [60], boron-containing polyvinyl alcohols [71], lanthanum tetrafluoride complexed ethylene oxide [151, 72, 73], polycarbonate-acrylonitrile diene [44], polyethylene deoxythiophe-nel, blends of polystyrene sulfonate, polyvinyl chloride and polyethylene oxide [43], poly-pyrrole [61], polypyrrole-polypropylene-montmorillonite composites [62], polydimethyl siloxane-polypyrrole composites [63], polyaniline [46], epoxy resin-polyaniline dodecyl benzene sulfonic acid blends [64], and polyaniline-polyamide 6 composites [49]. 

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