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Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene for high-demanding applications: synthesis upscaling and advances in processing and composites
thesis
posted on 2017-10-13, 16:01 authored by Giuseppe ForteThis thesis is based on a collection of papers and patents published and filed between 2010 and 2017 and added as appendixes 1 to 16. The objective of the work was to study the influence of certain reaction parameters to achieve a profitable industrial scale production of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene UHMWPE with reduced number of entanglements, aiming to establish the: most cost-effective chemicals to use for highest amount of product per batch with a targeted product morphology to achieve best processability in continuous solid state processing (chapter 3); targeted molecular weight of the product to achieve desired performances in the commercial article (chapter 4); addition of functionalities to improve product synthesis and processability as well as to increase performances and renovate manufacturing of new articles (chapter 5). [Continues.]
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Materials
Publisher
Loughborough UniversityRights holder
© Giuseppe FortePublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2017Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.Language
- en
Supervisor(s)
Helen WillcockQualification name
- PhD
Qualification level
- Doctoral