Plastic articles of reduced gas transmission and method therefor
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsJoel L. Williams, Susan L. Burkett, Shel McGuire
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Abstract
An irradiated plastic article of reduced gas transmission has a coating of silicon oxide on a surface thereof. A method to reduce gas transmission through a plastic article includes depositing a coating of silicon oxide thereon and irradiating, either prior to or subsequent to depositing the silicon oxide.
Claims6
A container comprising a wall of polymer material, said polymer material having a coating of a gas transmission-limiting material on a surface corresponding to the outer wall of said container and said polymer material having been irradiated with high energy radiation to form radicals in the polymeric chains of said polymer material which serve to react with and thereby block passage of gases coming into said container from without.
A polypropylene blood collection assembly comprising an evacuated polypropylene tube having a closed end, a side wall and an open end having a puncturable stopper therein and a silicon oxide coating over an external surface of said tube, said tube or assembly having been irradiated with high energy radiation.
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