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A single polymer cannot meet all the required properties such as high impact, high stiffness, good heat sealability, stretchability, optical properties, barrier properties etc. of many of the end use polymer products. To compensate these properties a multilayer structure offers a good blend of properties. The whole is more than the sum of its parts properties. Multilayer films could be a natural choice for both rigid and flexible materials. Plastic films compose a broad category of materials that can be relatively simple or complex depending on the demands of a particular product. Multilayer polymer films usually composed of two or more different compositions and possess a thickness of up to about 7.5–8 × 10−4 m. The layers are at least partially contiguous and preferably, but optionally, coextensive.
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Ajitha, A.R., Aswathi, M.K., Maria, H.J., Izdebska, J., Thomas, S. (2016). Multilayer Polymer Films. In: Kim, J., Thomas, S., Saha, P. (eds) Multicomponent Polymeric Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 223. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7324-9_8
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