Plastics Engineering, Vol.54, No.4, 33-36, 1998
Plastomer-modified PP films for medical product packaging
Despite the rapid growth of polypropylene as a material of construction for radiation-sterilized medical devices, polypropylene films have not achieved similar use in the packaging for such devices or for medical solutions. By demonstrating that blends of propylene homopolymers and plastomers can resist gamma-radiation, the author shows that it is now possible to produce polypropylene film that can be successfully used for those purposes.
Keywords:POLYPROPYLENE;DEGRADATION