What is it about?
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is one of the most used plastics with a variety of industrial applications that include medical devices. Inclusion of plasticizers to soften the PVC (rigid if un-plasticized) widely increase its application area. This chapter reviews the recent trends in plasticizers, PVC formulations with a range of plasticizers and their applications in medical devices from a wide perspective to cover properties, processing, toxicology and functional performance.
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Why is it important?
Even though there are quite many articles studying PVC formulations with various plasticizers other than DEHP, finding a review chapter that evaluates the recent trends and connecting with specific product applications in a nutshell are still hard to find. This chapter is valuable for the readers who search for a good summary supported by data.
Perspectives
PVC and plasticizers have been quite controversial subjects for many years. This study is aimed to provide a review of the subject based on scientific evaluation of flexible PVC formulations.
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This page is a summary of: Polyvinyl Chloride Formulations: Non-DEHP Plasticized, January 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1081/e-ebpp-120051070.
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