Boosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double Hydroxide
Efficient near-infrared (NIR) laser marking on transparent polymers like polypropylene, epoxy, and polyethylene has posed a big challenge due to their lack of absorption in the NIR. Currently, inorganic additives are used to improve NIR laser marking efficiency, but they come with issues such as tox...
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2024
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| author | Chen, C Wang, J Evans, A O’Hare, D |
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| description | Efficient near-infrared (NIR) laser marking on transparent polymers like polypropylene, epoxy, and polyethylene has posed a big challenge due to their lack of absorption in the NIR. Currently, inorganic additives are used to improve NIR laser marking efficiency, but they come with issues such as toxicity, high loading requirement, adverse effects on color/opaqueness, and the need for low laser head speeds. Herein, we report a new strategy of incorporating a food-grade, Mg2Al-CO3 LDH as a boosting coadditive alongside the commercial NIR laser marking additive (Iriotech 8815) in an epoxy system. Our findings demonstrate that the incorporation of Mg2Al-CO3 LDH can significantly increase both the darkness and contrast of marking even at high laser head speed (5000 mm/s), while minimizing surface damage. Notably, by replacing 95% of Iriotech 8815 with Mg2Al-CO3 LDH, an epoxy plate can exhibit high transparency, while producing dark, sharply defined markings with excellent readable QR code markings at high laser speeds. This result offers a promising solution for enhancing high-speed NIR laser marking on transparent polymers with additional advantages of lower toxicity and cost and with minimal optical interference from high additive loadings. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f25260f8-30c3-4ddd-b3e0-b3bc44793f192024-07-29T19:35:10ZBoosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double HydroxideJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f25260f8-30c3-4ddd-b3e0-b3bc44793f19EnglishJisc Publications RouterAmerican Chemical Society2024Chen, CWang, JEvans, AO’Hare, DEfficient near-infrared (NIR) laser marking on transparent polymers like polypropylene, epoxy, and polyethylene has posed a big challenge due to their lack of absorption in the NIR. Currently, inorganic additives are used to improve NIR laser marking efficiency, but they come with issues such as toxicity, high loading requirement, adverse effects on color/opaqueness, and the need for low laser head speeds. Herein, we report a new strategy of incorporating a food-grade, Mg2Al-CO3 LDH as a boosting coadditive alongside the commercial NIR laser marking additive (Iriotech 8815) in an epoxy system. Our findings demonstrate that the incorporation of Mg2Al-CO3 LDH can significantly increase both the darkness and contrast of marking even at high laser head speed (5000 mm/s), while minimizing surface damage. Notably, by replacing 95% of Iriotech 8815 with Mg2Al-CO3 LDH, an epoxy plate can exhibit high transparency, while producing dark, sharply defined markings with excellent readable QR code markings at high laser speeds. This result offers a promising solution for enhancing high-speed NIR laser marking on transparent polymers with additional advantages of lower toxicity and cost and with minimal optical interference from high additive loadings. |
| spellingShingle | Chen, C Wang, J Evans, A O’Hare, D Boosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double Hydroxide |
| title | Boosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double Hydroxide |
| title_full | Boosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double Hydroxide |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Boosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double Hydroxide |
| title_short | Boosting NIR Laser Marking Efficiency of a Transparent Epoxy Using a Layered Double Hydroxide |
| title_sort | boosting nir laser marking efficiency of a transparent epoxy using a layered double hydroxide |
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