Super-Robust Polylactide Barrier Films by Building Densely Oriented Lamellae Incorporated with Ductile in Situ Nanofibrils of Poly(butylene adipate- co -terephthalate)

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 8096-8109

  Zhou, Sheng Yang ^a   Huang, Hua Dong ^a   Ji, Xu ^a   Yan, Ding Xiang ^a   Zhong, Gan Ji ^a   Hsiao, Benjamin S ^b   Li, Zhong Ming ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

elongational flow filed; gas barrier property; in situ nanofibrils; network of oriented lamellae; polylactide films

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS; BIOPOLYMERS; BUTENES; COMPOSITE FILMS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOFIBERS; POLYESTERS;

ACCELERATION EFFECTS; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; ELONGATIONAL FLOW; GAS BARRIER PROPERTIES; NANO-FIBRILS; OXYGEN PERMEABILITY COEFFICIENT; POLIES (BUTYLENE ADIPATE CO TEREPHTHALATE); POLYLACTIDE FILMS;

GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; NANOFIBER; OXYGEN; POLY(BUTYLENE ADIPATE-CO-BUTYLENE TEREPHTHALATE); POLYESTER; POLYLACTIDE;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; PERMEABILITY;

MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOFIBERS; OXYGEN; PERMEABILITY; POLYESTERS;

EID: 84963628458     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b00451     Document Type: Article

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