Biaxial Stretching of Ultra-High Strength Polyolefin Gel    Films
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The project deals with the study of biaxial stretching of ultra- high           molecular weight polyolefin gel films, especially UHMWPE and UHMWPP.            Uniaxially drawn UHMWPE gels have shown ultra-high strength                     comparable to its counterparts such as steel or KevlarR fibers.                 However, such uniaxially driven fibers are inherently weak in                   transverse direction due to fibrillation.  The lateral strength may             be significantly improved by introducing biaxial orientation in the             gels.  The PI will perform cross-rolling of UHMWPE gels prior to                biaxial stretching to limit significant reduction of sample thickness           during biaxial stretching.  Another area that will be addressed is to           study the mechanisms of gel drawing by probing labelled molecules.  A           third area that will be addressed is a study of melting and                     crystallization behavior of UHMWPE gels and the deformation                     mechanisms of gel spherulites by conventional time-resolved light               scattering, SAXS, WAXD and optical microscopy.
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