Enhancing the Oxygen-Barrier Properties of Polylactide by Tailoring the Arrangement of Crystalline Lamellae

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 6247-6255

  Li, Chunhai ^a   Jiang, Ting ^a   Wang, Jianfeng ^a   Peng, Shuangjuan ^a   Wu, Hong ^a   Shen, Jiabin ^a   Guo, Shaoyun ^a   Zhang, Xi ^a   Harkin Jones, Eileen ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crystallization; Gas Barrier; Graphene; Multilayers; Polylactide; Self Assemble

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION BARRIERS; DIFFUSION IN GASES; FUEL TANKS; GASES; GRAPHENE; INTERFACE STATES; MULTILAYERS; OXYGEN; POLYESTERS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

GAS BARRIER; GAS BARRIER PROPERTIES; OXYGEN BARRIER PROPERTIES; OXYGEN PERMEABILITY COEFFICIENT; POLY LACTIDE; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SEMI-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 85046684511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00026     Document Type: Article

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