Packaging Films
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2015) | Viewed by 42730
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Packaging films are essential for maintaining the integrity of a variety of products, which range from foods to cutting-edge electronics, such as flexible OLED displays. In particular, the advent of flexible electronics requires further innovations in packaging films, including the development of the polymer flexible substrate. For example, in the case of flexible OLED displays, the rate of permeation for water must be lower than 10−6 g/m2/day; this is an extremely low penetration rate (compared to other applications). Even the usage of graphene as the packaging film has to meet the ultimate requirements of permeability, flexibility, transparency, thickness, and stability. This Special Issue of Polymers will cover the whole line of recent research involved in advanced packaging film synthesis, integration, integrity tests, and more.
Prof. Dr. Taek-Soo Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- packaging films
- polymer substrates
- multilayer nanocomposite films
- encapsulation
- permeability
- adhesion
- flexible electronics
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