PMID- 27314927
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180718
LR  - 20180718
IS  - 1944-8252 (Electronic)
IS  - 1944-8244 (Linking)
VI  - 8
IP  - 27
DP  - 2016 Jul 13
TI  - Improving the Transparency of Ultra-Drawn Melt-Crystallized Polyethylenes: Toward 
      High-Modulus/High-Strength Window Application.
PG  - 17549-54
LID - 10.1021/acsami.6b04704 [doi]
AB  - Highly transparent, ultradrawn high-density polyethylene (HDPE) films were 
      successfully prepared using compression molding and solid-state drawing 
      techniques. The low optical transmittance (<50%) of the pure drawn HDPE films can 
      be drastically improved (>90%) by incorporating a small amount (>1 wt %/wt) of 
      specific additives to HDPE materials prior to drawing. It is shown that additives 
      with relatively high refractive index result in an increased optical 
      transmittance in the visible light wavelength which illustrates that the 
      improvement in optical characteristics probably originates from refractive index 
      matching between the crystalline and noncrystalline regions in the drawn films. 
      Moreover, the optically transparent drawn HDPE films containing additives 
      maintain their physical and mechanical properties, especially their high modulus 
      and high strength, which make these films potentially useful in a variety of 
      applications, such as high-impact windows.
FAU - Shen, Lihua
AU  - Shen L
AD  - Laboratory of Functional Organic Materials and Devices, Eindhoven University of 
      Technology , P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.
FAU - Nickmans, Koen
AU  - Nickmans K
AD  - Laboratory of Functional Organic Materials and Devices, Eindhoven University of 
      Technology , P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.
FAU - Severn, John
AU  - Severn J
AD  - Laboratory of Functional Organic Materials and Devices, Eindhoven University of 
      Technology , P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.
AD  - DSM Ahead B.V. , NL-6160 MD Geleen, The Netherlands.
FAU - Bastiaansen, Cees W M
AU  - Bastiaansen CW
AD  - Laboratory of Functional Organic Materials and Devices, Eindhoven University of 
      Technology , P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven 5600 MB, The Netherlands.
AD  - School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London , 
      London E1 4NS, U.K.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160701
PL  - United States
TA  - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
JT  - ACS applied materials & interfaces
JID - 101504991
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - high-density polyethylenes
OT  - modulus
OT  - solid state drawing
OT  - strength
OT  - transparency
EDAT- 2016/06/18 06:00
MHDA- 2016/06/18 06:01
CRDT- 2016/06/18 06:00
PHST- 2016/06/18 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/06/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/06/18 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/acsami.6b04704 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Jul 13;8(27):17549-54. doi: 
      10.1021/acsami.6b04704. Epub 2016 Jul 1.