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UV Cured Liquid Polyethylene or Polypropylene

06/09/2009 5:11 PM

Hi

I am wondering if there is liquid polyethylene or liquid polypropylene available that can be cured using UV (or any other mechanism for that matter). Basically, I want to use this liquid polymer (has to be polyethylene or polypropylene) and spin it on a silicon wafer to get a thin film of polyethylene or polypropylene. Then, I would like to cure it using some mechanism (any). Once cured, I guess, it can be pealed off. This way, I would like to get a thin sheet of this plastic material with a thickness in the range of 1-5 microns.

I would appreciate any help with this matter as I have no clue about e beautiful field of chemistry!

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Re: Liquid polyethylene or polypropylene

06/09/2009 7:31 PM

These are polyolefins. Think of them as ultra-high molecular weight wax.

Wiki: polyolefins for a quick primer.

Go fish! They are insoluble in almost everything. Tons of chemical laboratory containers are made from PE. Machines that etch metal with acids are made from PP.

Even if you could produce a 1-5 micron film, you would never be able to peel it off the disk.

You might try getting the thinnest PE film available and try to heat and stretch it.

Good luck.

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Re: UV Cured Liquid Polyethylene or Polypropylene

06/15/2009 4:21 AM

You could try blow molding polythene or polypropylene sheet. It will stretch considerably.

I believe blown film is available down to about 50um in polythene. This is about 10x what you are after. It should be possible, with care, to take it down the rest.

Have fun.

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Re: UV Cured Liquid Polyethylene or Polypropylene

06/24/2009 6:32 PM

While polyethylene or polypropylene are not likely to be possible in this situation, you could contact Sartomer at www.sartomer.com for specialty UV curing monomers that can make a coating that might do the job for you. Using acrylic terminated waxy oligomers (partially polymerized monomers) is frequently done in industry. While waxy monomers are not polyethylene, they might be the closest you can find easily.

The coatings are called "hardcoat" and there are also companies that sell UV curing hardcoat formulations ready to use, which you can locate on Google. Electronics, flooring, furniture, and window film industries among others are big users of these materials.

The electronic industry uses "paralyene" coating technology, which you can investigate on Wikipedia.

Good luck!

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