Em. Morozova et al., CONTROLLED INTERACTIONS AT THE FIBER-MATR IX INTERFACE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SURFACE-STATE OF MODIFIED PE FIBERS, Vysokomolekularnye soedinenia. Seria A, 37(1), 1995, pp. 133-136
The modification of PE fibers was studied and the effects of the chemi
cal nature of modifiers on the properties of PE fibers and microplasti
cs with polymeric matrix was analyzed. The state of the fiber surface
and its dependence on the nature of modifier was described in terms of
wetting angles measured on bundled fiber samples. The surface propert
ies of PE fibers were studied. The variation of the surface properties
of modified fibers correlates with the strength characteristics of th
e microplastics.