Super gas barrier of transparent polymer-clay multilayer ultrathin films. Academic Article

abstract

• Flexible and transparent polymeric "superbarrier" packaging materials have become increasingly important in recent years. Layer-by-layer assembly offers a facile technique for the fabrication of layered, polymer-clay superbarrier thin films. At only 51 nm thick, these nanocomposite thin films, comprised of 12 polymer and 4 clay layers, exhibit an oxygen permeability orders of magnitude lower than EVOH and SiOx. Coupling high flexibility, transparency, and barrier protection, these films are good candidates for a variety packaging applications.

authors

• Grunlan, Jaime

published proceedings

• Nano Lett

altmetric score

• 9

author list (cited authors)

• Priolo, M. A., Gamboa, D., Holder, K. M., & Grunlan, J. C.

citation count

• 277

complete list of authors

• Priolo, Morgan A||Gamboa, Daniel||Holder, Kevin M||Grunlan, Jaime C

publication date

• December 2010

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology  Journal

keywords

• Composites
• Layer By Layer Assembly
• Oxygen Barrier
• Thin Films
• Transmission Electron Microscopy

PubMed Central ID

• 21047123

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/nl103047k

start page

• 4970

end page

• 4974

volume

• 10

issue

• 12

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl103047k