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Action of water in the degradation of low-density polyethylene studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

2007· article· en· W1972490737 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueeXPRESS Polymer Letters · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicPolymer crystallization and properties
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsX-ray photoelectron spectroscopyDegradation (telecommunications)Materials sciencePolyethyleneHigh-density polyethyleneSpectroscopyX-rayChemical engineeringAnalytical Chemistry (journal)Composite materialEnvironmental chemistryOpticsChemistryPhysicsComputer scienceTelecommunications

Abstract

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Industrial low-density polyethylene (LDPE) was aged in stagnant distilled water during one year. Two types of this material were studied. The first one was without additives and the second type was doped with 4% of hindered-amine light stabilizers (HALS). Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), the evidence that an oxidation occurs was demonstrated for the two types of LDPE (with and without HALS). One objective was to observe the chemical groups resulting of the ageing and to propose a mechanism of hydrolytic degradation for LDPE. The analysis of C1s spectra shows that the main oxidation products are C-O and C=O groups. Unlike the hydrolytic degradation of polypropylene, there is no presence of O=C-O groups, which suggests that there is no oxidative chain scission during hydrolytic ageing of the LDPE. The other objective of the study was to observe if the HALS can have an influence in the hydrolytic ageing of the LDPE. The values of the atomic concentration of the oxygen for the two types of samples show that the HALS could slightly slow down the oxidation of the LDPE.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.360

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it