Thermoplastic olefin fabrics

Fabrics used as support are coated PVC, acryhc fabrics, glass fibre-based fabrics, thermoplastic olefin (TPO) fabrics, or structures coated by polyvinyl fluoride. 

The most widely used material for fabrication of microfluidic systems, and hence also microfluidic cell culture chips, is PDMS, which in many systems is utilized in combination with glass. PDMS is fabrication wise well suited for prototyping, whereas it is not in the same degree amenable to mass reproduction. A new emerging trend is, however, fabrication using thermoplastic polymers, such as pol5miethylmethacrylate (PMMA), cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) and polycarbonate (PC), which can be used for... 

Polyethylene is a semicrystalline, thermoplastic material classified as a synthetic organic polymer. Depending on manufacturing process conditions, polyethylene melts between approximately 110-135°C to form a non-Newtonian hquid that may be molded into a wide variety of shapes utilizing various fabrication techniques. One of the first questions many scientists and engineers ask when beginning a career in the polyethylene industry is How can such a simple polymer, represented by the formula -(CH -CH ) -, result in such a complex business The answer lies in the enormous variety of molecular structures that are possible in the polymerization and, more importantly, copolymerization of ethylene with a wide variety of other 1-olefins. 

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