Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) belongs to an emerging class of high-
performance specialty polymers with a unique set of properties and applications. The field …

Chain entanglement, either cohesional or topological, distinguishes polymers from other
engineering materials. It impedes the movement of molecular segments and influences the …

The advent of nascent d-UHMWPE overcomes the intrinsic melting defects and crystal
boundaries within the commercial UHMWPE (C-UHMWPE) based products, and opens the …

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations are carried out to study the reconstruction of
the entanglement network and the subsequent crystallization in the sintering process of …

The world population will rapidly grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050 and this will parallel a
surging annual plastics consumption from today's 350 million tons to well beyond 1 billion …

Inorganic particles are often used to enhance the wear resistance of UHMWPE, but the
mechanism of the “enhancement effect” of inorganic particles improving the wear resistance …

Macromolecules form entanglements, the presence of which determines many of the
polymer's properties; in solution, melt, and solid state. In this review, how the properties of …

Polyethylene with a molecular weight greater than a million g/mol, is of increasing
commercial interest because it provides a route to make fibers and films that have …

Several homogeneous postmetallocene complexes are known to produce weakly entangled
ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene (disentangled UHMWPE) under controlled …

Nascent particles of ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) with different
entangled states and particle sizes have been processed by means of sintering. The chain …