Graphene Oxide-Driven Design of Strong and Flexible Biopolymer Barrier Films: From Smart Crystallization Control to Affordable Engineering

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 334-349

  Xu, Huan ^a,c   Feng, Zhao Xuan ^a   Xie, Lan ^b,c   Hakkarainen, Minna ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Barrier films; Chemical resistance; Graphene oxide networks; Mechanical properties; Selective stereocomplexation; Stereocomplex PLA

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; COMPLEXATION; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; GRAPHENE; HYBRID SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOSHEETS; OXIDE FILMS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

BARRIER FILMS; GRAPHENE OXIDE NANOSHEET; GRAPHENE OXIDES; HOMOGENEOUS DISPERSIONS; LARGE SPECIFIC SURFACE AREAS; OXYGEN PERMEABILITY COEFFICIENT; STEREOCOMPLEXATION; STEREOCOMPLEXES;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84953258011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01273     Document Type: Article

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