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Destruction of polyethylene-oxide films during storage

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In lengthy storage of PEO films the amorphous part of the material is subjected most to destruction under the effect of environmental factors; consequently, films with a higher degree of crystallinity are more suitable for storage. The resistance of individual sections of film to environmental factors is a random variable, and the nature of the encountered patterns of destruction can therefore be reproduced with the aid probabilistic models.

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  1. Institute of the Mechanics of Polymers, Latvian Academy of Sciences, LV-1006, Riga, Latvia

    V. M. Parfeev, A. Kh. Kurzemnieks & R. R. Ioffe

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Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 464–470, July–August, 1994.

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Parfeev, V.M., Kurzemnieks, A.K. & Ioffe, R.R. Destruction of polyethylene-oxide films during storage. Mechanics of Composite Materials 30, 335–339 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00634756

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