Synergic Enhancement of High-density Polyethylene through Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Multi-flow Vibration Injection Molding: A Facile Fabrication with Potential Industrial Prospects

Rui Hong; Yi-Xin Jiang; Jie Leng; Ming-Jin Liu; Kai-Zhi Shen; Qiang Fu; Jie Zhang

doi:10.1007/s10118-021-2545-8

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Synergic Enhancement of High-density Polyethylene through Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Multi-flow Vibration Injection Molding: A Facile Fabrication with Potential Industrial Prospects

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- Synergic Enhancement of High-density Polyethylene through Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Multi-flow Vibration Injection Molding: A Facile Fabrication with Potential Industrial Prospects
- Chinese Journal of Polymer Science Vol. 39, Issue 6, Pages: 756-769(2021)
- Affiliations：
  
  College of Polymer Science and Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
- Author bio：
  
  zhangjie@scu.edu.cn
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- DOI：10.1007/s10118-021-2545-8
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- Received：19 September 2020，
  
  Revised：2020-12-17，
  
  Accepted：30 December 2020，
  
  Online First：01 February 2021，
  
  Published：15 April 2021
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Hong, R.; Jiang, Y. X.; Leng, J.; Liu, M. J.; Shen, K. Z.; Fu, Q.; Zhang, J. Synergic enhancement of high-density polyethylene through ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene and multi-flow vibration injection molding: a facile fabrication with potential industrial prospects. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 756–769

Rui Hong, Yi-Xin Jiang, Jie Leng, et al. Synergic Enhancement of High-density Polyethylene through Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Multi-flow Vibration Injection Molding: A Facile Fabrication with Potential Industrial Prospects[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(6): 756-769.
Hong, R.; Jiang, Y. X.; Leng, J.; Liu, M. J.; Shen, K. Z.; Fu, Q.; Zhang, J. Synergic enhancement of high-density polyethylene through ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene and multi-flow vibration injection molding: a facile fabrication with potential industrial prospects. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 39, 756–769 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-021-2545-8.

Rui Hong, Yi-Xin Jiang, Jie Leng, et al. Synergic Enhancement of High-density Polyethylene through Ultrahigh Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Multi-flow Vibration Injection Molding: A Facile Fabrication with Potential Industrial Prospects[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021, 39(6): 756-769. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-021-2545-8.

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General-purpose plastics with high strength and toughness have been in great demand for structural engineering applications. To achieve the reinforcement and broaden the application scope of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)

multi-flow vibration injection molding (MFVIM) and ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) are synergistically employed in this work. Herein

the MFVIM has better shear layer control ability and higher fabrication advantage for complex parts than other analogous novel injection molding technologies reported. The reinforcing effect of various filling times and UHMWPE contents as well as the corresponding microstructure evolution are investigated. When 5 wt% UHMWPE is added

MFVIM process with six flow times thickens the shear layer to the whole thickness. The tensile strength and modulus increase to 2.14 and 1.39 times

respectively

compared to neat HDPE on the premise of remaining 70% impact strength. Structural characterizations indicate that the enhancement is attributed to the improvement of shish-kebab content and lamellae compactness

as well as related to the corresponding size distributions of undissolved UHMWPE particles. This novel injection molding technology with great industrial prospects provides a facile and effective strategy to broaden the engineering applications of HDPE materials. Besides

excessive UHMWPE may impair the synergistic enhancement effect

which is also reasonably explained.

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