High-barrier packaging with liquid crystal polymers
Because of their excellent high-barrier properties, chemical inertness, and high-temperature capability, liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) will play an increasingly important role in packaging. Many packaging professionals are not familiar with LCPs because to date they have exclusively been used in in...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Tappi journal 1997-06, Vol.80 (6), p.205-212 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Because of their excellent high-barrier properties, chemical inertness, and high-temperature capability, liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) will play an increasingly important role in packaging. Many packaging professionals are not familiar with LCPs because to date they have exclusively been used in injection-molded parts such as electronic connectors. The key to using LCP in packaging is processing, which uses the high-performance polymer efficiently. Multiaxially oriented LCP films and coextruded LCP multilayers are being developed to meet the requirements of high-performance and low-cost packaging. Although the price of LCPs is relatively high, they can be used with favorable cost-performance tradeoffs, because thin layers of LCP can replace much thicker layers of alternative barrier polymers. |
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ISSN: | 0734-1415 |