Anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, preparation method and anti-counterfeiting method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11946166-B2
Application number	US-202117618317-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 20, 2021
Priority date	Nov 11, 2020
Publication date	Apr 2, 2024
Grant date	Apr 2, 2024

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for preparing an anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, including: mixing a pulp stock solution with a cellulose catalyst, alkalizing, aging, sulfonating, and then dissolving the pulp stock solution in an alkaline solution to obtain a treatment solution; mixing the treatment solution with multiple amino acid-metal chelates, filtering, defoaming and ripening to obtain a spinning stock solution; and mixing the spinning stock solution with a spinning bath additive, and wet spinning, followed by drafting, defoaming, desulfurizing, water washing, and other post-treatments, to obtain an anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, wherein the amino acid metal-chelates account for 0.5%-1.5% by weight of the spinning stock solution. Amino acid-metal chelates are used to anti-counterfeit and encrypt the modal fibers, and the anti-counterfeiting and encrypting is involved in the spinning stock solution of modal fibers. The fiber source can be tracked and identified by detecting the species of metal elements and amino acids.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for preparing an anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, comprising steps of:
(1) mixing a pulp stock solution with a cellulose catalyst, alkalizing, aging, sulfonating, and then dissolving the pulp stock solution in an alkaline solution to obtain a treatment solution; and
(2) mixing the treatment solution uniformly with a plurality of amino acid-metal chelates, filtering, defoaming and ripening to obtain a spinning stock solution; and mixing the spinning stock solution uniformly with a spinning bath additive, and wet spinning, followed by post-treatments, to obtain the anti-counterfeiting modal fiber, wherein the amino acid metal-chelates account for 0.5%-1.5% by weight of the spinning stock solution.

2. The preparation method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (1), the cellulose catalyst is JL-EBZ; and the cellulose catalyst accounts for 0.3%-1.8% by weight of the pulp stock solution.

3. The preparation method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (1), the pulp stock solution has a degree of polymerization of ≥850, and a methylcellulose content of ≥92%.

4. The preparation method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (2), the amino acid-metal chelates comprise an amino acid and a metal ion chelated with the amino acid, and the molar ratio of the amino acid to the metal ion is 2-3:1.

5. The preparation method according to claim 4 , wherein the amino acid is selected from the group consisting of tyrosine, lysine, leucine, valine, phenylalanine and any combination thereof and the metal ion is selected from a copper ion, a calcium ion, a iron ion and any combination thereof.

6. The preparation method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (2), the spinning bath additive is JL-FS; and the spinning bath additive accounts for 0.1%-0.25% by weight of the spinning stock solution.

7. The preparation method according to claim 1 , wherein in Step (2), the wet spinning is low-speed spinning, and the spinning speed is 28-33 m/min; high drafting is performed in a coagulation bath, with a total drafting rate of 75%-85%; and low drafting is performed in post-treatment, with a total drafting rate of 20%-30%.

8. An anti-counterfeiting modal fiber prepared by the method according to claim 1 , comprising modal fibers and multiple amino acid-metal chelates distributed in the modal fibers, wherein the amino acid-metal chelates account for 0.5%-1.5% by weight of the anti-counterfeiting modal fiber.

9. An anti-counterfeiting method using the anti-counterfeiting modal fiber according to claim 8 , comprising an encryption step, and a decryption and identification step, wherein
the encryption step comprises encoding the anti-counterfeiting modal fiber according to the species and amounts of the amino acid-metal chelates, and sending encrypted information; and
the decryption and identification step comprises obtaining the encrypted information, and testing the species and amounts of amino acids and metal ions in the modal fiber; and then comparing with the obtained encrypted information to identify the authenticity of the modal fiber.

Assignees

• Univ Soochow

Inventors

• Liu Yuqing
• Li Qin
• Li Xingxing
• Zhang Yeke
• Wang Zhong
• Wang Guohe
• Pan Zhijuan

Classifications

• D01F2/08 Primary

  Composition of the spinning solution or the bath · CPC title

• D01D1/02

  Preparation of spinning solutions · CPC title

• D01D5/06

  Wet spinning methods {(D01D5/0046 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• D01F1/10

  Other agents for modifying properties · CPC title

• G07D7/02 Primary

  Testing electrical properties of the materials thereof (G07D7/01 takes precedence) · CPC title