Abstract
LDPE films have been coated with single or bi-layer hybrid coatings formed through sol–gel reactions in order to improve their thermo-oxidative resistance. Different chemical compositions of the coating were investigated which differ either in the amount of the inorganic phase (silica deriving from tetraethoxysilane) or in the organic component (either alkoxy silane functionalized polyethylene–poly(ethylene glycol) diblock copolymers or poly(vinyl alcohol)). The thermo-oxidative stability of the coated films thus obtained has been assessed by means of isothermal differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and isothermal thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA) under accelerated conditions, i.e. at high temperatures in pure oxygen flow. Conventional ageing in air at lower temperature, slightly above the in-service one, has also been carried out. The obtained data show: a) a general improvement of the thermal-resistance for the coated LDPE samples; b) a particularly high thermal-resistance for LDPE coated with a bi-layer coating with pure silica in the top layer; c) the effectiveness of the accelerated techniques in qualitatively assessing the thermo-oxidative resistance of the coated polymeric systems.
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