A facile in situ method to fabricate transparent, flexible polyvinyl alcohol/ZnO film for UV-shielding

• Main Authors: Zhao, Zhitong, Mao, Anran, Gao, Weiwei, Bai, Hao
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; PVA/ZnO Film; UV-shielding
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144235
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Over exposure of UV light could cause serious damages to human being, such as DNA damage, skin aging and cancer, cataract and so on. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop optically transparent materials as windows, glasses and protection film etc. to filter UV light. In the present study, a homo...