The Potential of Nanocomposite Barrier Technology

It is needed for flexible transparent substrate to have not only the flexibility but also the ability of the material barrier as same as glass material. We paid attention to the nanocomposite barrier technology as a technique for making both its flexibility and the barrier property that are opposed to each other. This is a technology for appearing the barrier property by bringing the effect of the diffusion delay, so-called "Maze", to the diffusion of the material (gas molecule etc.) that passes by dispersing and combining a small plate of material impermeability filler on the nanometer scale into the resin. In this study, the possibility of being compatible with flexibility and barrier property is shown by improving the effective aspect ratio using the small plate filler in the nanocomposite barrier technology.