PET is a milky white or light yellow highly crystalline polymer with a smooth, glossy surface.
Good creep resistance, fatigue resistance, friction resistance and dimensional stability, small wear and high hardness, with the greatest toughness of thermoplastics: good electrical insulation performance, little affected by temperature, but poor corona resistance.
Non-toxic, weather resistance, good stability against chemicals, low water absorption, resistance to weak acids and organic solvents, but not heat resistant to water immersion, not alkali resistance.
PET resin has high glass transition temperature, slow crystallization rate, long molding cycle, long molding cycle, large molding shrinkage, poor dimensional stability, brittle crystallization molding, low heat resistance. In addition to the properties of PBT, PET has the following characteristics through nucleating agents as well as improvements in crystallizing agents and glass fiber reinforcement.
1. Thermal deformation temperature and long-term service temperature are the highest in thermoplastic general engineering plastics.
2. Because of its high heat resistance, the enhanced PET is impregnated for 10s in the solder bath at 250℃, almost without deformation or discoloration, which is especially suitable for the preparation of electronic and electrical parts for solder welding.
3. The bending strength is 200MPa, the elastic modulus is 4000MPa, the creep resistance and fatigue property are good, the surface hardness is high, and the mechanical property is similar to that of thermosetting plastics.
4. PET resin and reinforced PET are the lowest cost engineering plastics and have a high cost performance, because the price of ethylene glycol used in PET production is almost half that of butanediol used in PBT production.
To improve the performance of PET, PET can be formed with PC, elastomer, PBT, PS class, ABS, PA alloy.
PET (enhanced PET) mainly adopts injection molding processing, other methods are extrusion, blow molding, coating and welding, sealing, machining, vacuum coating and other secondary processing methods. Dry thoroughly before shaping. Polyethylene terephthalate is made from dimethyl terephthalate and ethylene glycol transesterification or esterification of terephthalate and ethylene glycol, and then polycondensation reaction. Crystal type saturated polyester, the average molecular weight (2-3)×104, weight average to number average molecular weight ratio of 1.5-1.8.
Glass transition temperature 80℃, Martin heat resistance 80℃, thermal deformation temperature 98℃ (1.82MPa), decomposition temperature 353℃. It has excellent mechanical properties, high rigidity, high hardness, low water absorption and good dimensional stability. Good toughness, impact resistance, friction resistance, creep resistance. Good chemical resistance, soluble in cresol, concentrated sulfuric acid, nitrobenzene, trichloroacetic acid, chlorophenol, insoluble in methanol, ethanol, acetone, alkane. Use temperature -100 ~ 120℃, bending strength 148-310MPa.
Water absorption: 0. 06%-0.129%
Impact strength: 641-128J /m
Rockwell hardness: M 90-95
Elongation: 1.8%-2.7%