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Fused Deposition Modeling of Polyolefins: Challenges and Opportunities
Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 2023 Polyolefins are the largest class of commercially available synthetic polymers that are extensively used in a variety of applications from commodities to engineering owing to their low cost of production, good physico‐mechanical properties, light weight,
Akash Gupta +2 more
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Current Advances in Biodegradation of Polyolefins
Microorganisms, 2022 Polyolefins, including polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polystyrene (PS), are widely used plastics in our daily life. The excessive use of plastics and improper handling methods cause considerable pollution in the environment, as well as waste ...
Ming-Zhu Ding
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Thermally enhanced pristine polyolefins: fundamentals, progress and prospective
Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2020 The low thermal conductivity of polymers hinders their use in applications requiring high thermal conductivity such as electronic packaging, heat exchangers, and thermal management devices. Polyethylene and polypropylene (polyolefins) account for ∼55% of
A.U. Chaudhry +2 more
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A comprehensive review of the polyolefin composites and their properties
Heliyon, 2022 Polyolefins are formed by the polymerization of olefin monomer units such as ethylene, styrene, and vinyl chloride. Polyolefins composites are a mixture of polyolefins with different types of other polymers, reinforcements, or fillers.
Abdallah S. Elgharbawy, Rehab M. Ali
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The Effect of Slip Polymer Additives on the Characteristics of Polyethylene Films
Indonesian Journal of Chemical Analysis, 2023 Polymer additive’s function is to improve film quality, including slip additives which function as film surface lubricants. Slip additives affect the physical characteristics of the film as indicated by the coefficient of friction and optical properties.
Putri Intan Puspa Ningrum +2 more
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Metallocene Polyolefins Reinforced by Low-Entanglement UHMWPE through Interfacial Entanglements
Advances in Polymer Technology, 2022 By introducing low-entanglement UHMWPE, the mechanical properties of polyolefins are improved to varying degrees. For polypropylene, the lack of interaction between UHMWPE and polypropylene results in an unsatisfactory reinforcement effect, and the ...
Xin Tang +10 more
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Nature Communications, 2022 Polyolefins are a major fraction of plastic waste, yet their catalytic recycling is challenging due to their inert hydrocarbon structures. Here a well-defined supported organozirconium catalyst is shown to mediate the rapid hydrogenolytic cleavage ...
Alexander H. Mason +6 more
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A co-anchoring strategy for the synthesis of polar bimodal polyethylene
Nature Communications, 2023 Polar functional groups can improve the polymer properties of polyolefins but also poison the metal catalyst used during the polymerization reaction.
Chen Zou +3 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Plastic waste accumulation in marine environments has complex, unintended impacts on ecology that cross levels of community organization. To measure succession in polyolefin-colonizing marine bacterial communities, an in situ time-series experiment was ...
Sebastian L. Singleton +7 more
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Corrosion and Materials Degradation, 2023 As a result of the exponential growth in the production of plastics and their extended degradation period, strong environmental concerns in association with the disposal of plastic waste have emerged.
Shiva Khoshtinat
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