Abstract
AbstractDomestic (Bombyx mori) and wild (tussah, Antheraea pernyi) silk fabrics were treated with diluted NaOH solutions by the pad/batch method. The equillbrium moisture regain of tussah silk fibers increased steadily with alkaline treatment, while that of B. mori did not change. B. mori tensile strenght and elongation at break were slightly impaired. The average molecular orientation and crystallinity of both kinds of silk remained unchanged. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermomechanical analysis(TMA) showed that the thermal behavior of B. mori silk was almost unaffected, while that of tussah exhibited slight changes in the temperature range 250–300°C. By dynamic mechanical measurements (DMA) it was elucidated that both storage and loss moduli of B. mori silk fibers decreased following NaOH treatment. On the other hand, tussah silk exhibited a noticeable upward shift of the major loss peak. Alkali‐treated tussah silk fibers, dyed with an acid dyestuff, attained a lower degree of dye‐bath exhaustion. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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