Deposition of SiOx diffusion barriers on flexible packaging materials by PECVD

Comparison of the quality and storage stability of salmon packaged in various retort pouches

“…The combination of polymer materials with functional and protective coatings offers a number of key advantages over alternative bulk materials. SiO x or Al x O y coated films offer several advantages such as high gas barrier, microwaveable, light weight, design freedom, and transparency (Bieder, Gruinger, & Rohr, 2005;Czeremuszkin, Latreche, Wertheimer, & Sobrinho, 2001;Leterrier, 2004).…”

The performance of organic and inorganic coated retort pouch materials on the shelf life of ready-to-eat rice products

“…Presently, polymer films with thin, inorganic metal oxide coatings are used in the retort pouch industry as non-foil barrier materials. For instance, SiO x or Al x O y coated materials are two such inorganic coated films that offer several advantages such as high gas barrier, microwaveable, light weight, design freedom, and transparency (Bieder, Gruinger, & Rohr, 2005, Czeremuszkin, Latreche, Wertheimer, & Sobrinho, 2001, Leterrier, 2003. Another type of barrier coating, especially organic material coating, on polymer films has been reported (Deng, Wang, Liu, & Yang, 2009;Gupta, Plummer, Bisson, Frey, & Hilborn, 2002;Mauricio, Carvalho, Radovanovic, Muniz, & Rubira, 2009).…”

Conversion of Perhydropolysilazane into a SiOx Network Triggered by Vacuum Ultraviolet Irradiation: Access to Flexible, Transparent Barrier Coatings

“…[5][6][7] Hence, applications range from gas barriers in the packaging industry, [5,7,8] anticorrosive, protective coatings for metal surfaces against water vapor, and oxygen barriers for flexible solar cells, [9,10] multilayer arrangements for applications in electronics, [11] flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) [12] and vacuum-insulated panels (VIPs). [13] State of the art for producing such layers are physical vapor deposition (PVD), [14] plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), [15,16] reactive sputtering, [17] and sol-gel procedures. [18] Because these techniques may not always be applied to sensitive polymers, alternative processes, preferably ones which can be run at ambient temperature and pressure, need to be developed.…”