“…Because of the low cost, ready availability in various forms, chemical inertness, mechanical properties and high specific proton density of polyethylene (PE) materials, many emerging applications of PE have been envisioned. For example, PE microspheres have been employed as core materials for fabricating hollow alumina microspheres and non‐porous silica ultramicrospheres for HPLC column packing 1, 2. PE fibers can serve as filtration materials, absorber materials of heavy particle irradiation for space exploration or precursors of carbon fibers in the presence of a catalyst 3–7.…”