Conventional polarized polypropylene (PP) films were prepared by uniaxial tensile drawing of the colored PP film dyed by the high-pressure dyeing process using azo dichroic dyes and prepared by heat-kneading-hot press method of PP resin and azo dichroic dyes.
Anisotropic behavior of the polarized PP films which oriented by additional uniaxial tensile drawing was evaluated by visible spectroscopy in polarized light. Dichroic ratios of azo dichroic dyes in PP film additionally stretched at drawing ratio of 5 are close to that in nematic liquid crystal and this polarized PP film shows a maximum polarizing efficiency of 92 % at λ
max (531 nm) of azo dichroic dye.
These results show that an atactic PP has extensive amorphous region for dyeing of dichroic dyes and commercial dichroic dyes with azo chromophore are efficiently incorporated into the PP film by high-pressure dyeing process.
It is suggested that the heat-kneading processing of atactic PPs with dichroic dyes allows the preparation of better colored masterbatchs for the conventional polarized PP films.
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