Fabrication and Performance of Phase Change Thermoregulated Fiber from Bicomponent Melt Spinning
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
This work deals with phase change thermoregulated fibers (PCTF) produced by melt spinning.
THE WHOLE WORK IS INTERESTING AND COULD HAVE POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS.
POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT:
- Please, report some additional technical data for reagents used. For example in PE the product density could be added.
- What's the limitation of the proposed method?
- What's the main problem for industrial application?
- Propose ideas for future work.
- Please, make a brief patent literature
In my opinion this paper could be published after revision.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is an interesting work devoted to the actual topic of obtaining smart textiles.
The paper provides a brief overview and succinctly presents interesting results worthy of publication after correcting some minor flaws:
- Line 2. At the beginning of the manuscript, the authors and organizations should be indicated.
- Line 77 The PW abbreviation should be defined here because here it is mentioned for the first time
- Line 106 what is the "spinning speed" means?
- Lines 106-107 420 and 700 m/s Is that a typo? It is impossible to spin at that high speed
- Figure 1 what is a tensile strain device?
- Line 110 The detector type and the accelerating voltage must be given
- Lines 113 and 120 The references on GB/T 27761-2011 and GB/T 6040-2019 should be added.
- Line 162, etc. The wavenumbers should be rounded to significant values
- Figure 6 “Eco” on Fig.6a should be replaced on Exo, “Endo” should be also replaced on “Exo” with corresponding changing the arrow direction
- Figure 9. What distance between clamps is used? How reproducible are these results?
- Line 260 Polymers is not a textile journal. Modulus and fiber strength must be given in SI units (Pa).
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Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript entitled "Fabrication and performance of phase change thermoregulated fiber from bicomponent melt spinning" presents an interesting approach, but many drawbacks have to be solved.
- The word for highest strength is TENACITY.
- Editing is needed. A space should be introduced before the citations.
- Please reformulate: "The structure, thermal stability, thermal storage properties, and mechanical properties of PCTF were characterized.", for instance: PCTF was characterized regarding its structure, thermal stability, thermal storage properties, and mechanical properties.
- Line 147, please Correct The relationship............is given
- Figure 3, does not correspond to the description text.
- The IR spectrum, does not need peaks measured with such high precision. 2952.04 should be 2952 cm-1................
- XRd needs a more detailed discussion.
- DSC should be discussed together with TG-DTG.
- Terms lack to be used as expected: modulus of elasticity or Young's modulus
- References should be completed with many more recent reports.
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