Polyketone fibres and a process for making same.

摘要

Novel fibre of an alternating carbon monoxide ethylene polymer having an estimated molecular weight of at least 100 000 g/mole, which fibre has a birefringence of at least 650.10<-><4>. A novel process for making a high tensile strength and high modulus fibre from a linear alternating polymer of carbon monoxide and ethylene having an estimated molecular weight of at least 100 000 g/mole comprises extruding a solution of the polymer in a mixture of solvents, at least one of which is an aromatic alcohol being free of alkyl radical substituents on the aromatic nucleus and another of which is a liquid other than an aromatic alcohol, into a shaped solvent-containing article at an extrusion rate of at least 1 m/min. The article is solidified by cooling or coagulating in a non-solvent for the polymer, and the solvent is removed from it by extraction with a non-solvent for the polymer which is soluble in the mixture of solvents, whereupon the article is drawn at a temperature of at least 180 DEG C.