When it comes to polyetheretherketone, it is well known that if the plastic material is likened to a pyramid, PEEK is the one at the top of the tower. Polyetheretherketone resin (polyetheretherketone, PEEK resin for short) is a semi-crystalline, high-performance thermoplastic engineering plastic. PEEK has strong mechanical properties, chemical corrosion resistance, wear resistance, fatigue resistance and dimensional stability, high temperature resistance of 260 ° C, commonly used in construction machinery, aerospace products, etc. With other high temperature resistant plastics such as PI, PPS, PTFE, PPO and other high temperature resistant plastics, the upper limit of the operating temperature exceeds 50 °C.
The Performance Of PEEK
First of all, PEEK has strong heat resistance. The high temperature resistance of PEEK plastic can reach 260 degrees, and the heat deformation temperature can reach 160 degrees. If 30% glass fiber is added to modify, its heat deformation temperature can reach 316 degrees. PEEK resin can still maintain high strength at high temperature, the flexural strength at 200°C can reach 24mpa, while the flexural strength and flexural strength at 250°C are still 12~13mp.
Secondly, PEEK has excellent chemical stability and is resistant to almost all chemical reagents except concentrated sulfuric acid; its corrosion resistance is close to that of nickel steel, and at the same time, it has its own flame retardancy. 35%, and its smoke and toxic gas emissions are extremely low. Excellent hydrolysis resistance, insoluble in all common solvents, and can be used for a long time without significant peek performance degradation even in a steam environment at 200-250°C or in high-pressure water.
Thirdly, PEEK resin has remarkable tribological characteristics, excellent sliding wear resistance and fretting wear performance, especially can maintain high wear resistance and low friction coefficient at 250 °C;
In addition, PEEK resin also has high rigidity, good dimensional invariance, and small linear expansion coefficient, which is very close to metal aluminum materials. Easy injection molding peek , extrusion molding, good machining performance, high molding efficiency.
Of course, no material is omnipotent in the world, so PEEK with such high performance naturally has some disadvantages.
The Disadvantages Of PEEK
- Expensive and suitable for very demanding applications;
- Peek needs to be processed and 3d printing peek at high temperature; easily corroded by certain acids, such as concentrated sulfuric acid, nitric acid, chromic acid, and easily attacked by the chemical structure of halogens and sodium;
- Low UV resistance.
