Polyethylene Nanocomposite Heat-Sealants with a Versatile Peelable Character

✍ Scribed by Evangelos Manias; Jinguo Zhang; Jin Young Huh; Kiattikhun Manokruang; Ponusa Songtipya; Maria Mar Jimenez-Gasco

• Book ID: 102943057
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 595 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.200800553

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A novel heat‐sealing performance is achieved by polyethylene (PE) nanocomposites reinforced by ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and montmorillonite (MMT). Appropriate nanocomposite design leads to hermetic seals with a general peelable/easy‐open character across the broadest possible sealing temperature range. Observations of the fracture seal surfaces by infrared spectroscopy and electron microscopy reveal that this behavior originates from a synergistic effect of the EVA copolymer and the montmorillonite clay nanofiller. Namely, the combination of EVA‐copolymers and MMT nanofillers provides sufficiently favorable interactions for nanocomposite formation and mechanical robustness, but weak enough interfacial adhesion to promote a general cohesive failure of the sealant at the EVA/MMT interfaces.

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