Abstract
Polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) was discovered in 1838 by Regnault, but commercially developed a hundred years later (in 1939) at Dow Chemical by Reilly and Wiley as bi-axially oriented film for food wrapping, Saran TM. These researchers also invented a method for molding PVDC (Wiley, 1946). The symmetrical structure of vinylidene chloride results in highly crystalline polymer that is difficult to process. Today, the commercially available PVDC is modified by incorporation of either 15-20% vinyl chloride, or 13% vinyl chloride and 2% acrylonitrile. PVDC is known to possess extremely low permeability to nearly all gases and vapors.
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Utracki, L.A. (1998). Polyvinylidene halide blends. In: Commercial Polymer Blends. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5789-0_12
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