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Extraordinary mechanical performance in disentangled UHMWPE films processed by compression molding

Ana E Ferreira1, M Rosário Ribeiro2, Henri Cramail3

  • 1Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal; Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques, UMR5629, Université Bordeaux, CNRS, INP-Bordeaux-ENSCBP, 16, Avenue Pey Berland, Pessac Cedex F-33607, France.

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
|November 2, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
CrystallinityDisentangled chainsIndentation modulusSBA-15 particlesUHMWPE

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