What is silicone rubber?Silicone rubber is a high-performance elastomer with a wide range of high-performance physical, mechanical and chemical properties. Its useful properties, ease of production and forming has made it an ideal material for various industries and it is found in many products.becoming increasingly popular in Today’s world. Because of, and useful propertie, it isfood storage products, apparel, electronic devices, medical devices, implants, sealants and insulators.Properties of Silicone Rubber
High temperature silicone is weather and fire resistant and a great insulator. Silicone has low tensile abrasion and chemical resistance. Some common forms of silicone materials include silicone oil, grease, rubber, resin, and caulk.
Cures Fast
Resilient
Chemically Inert
Hypo-Allergeni
Odourless, Tasteless
Creates No By-products
Easy to Clean
Translucent and Easy to Color
Flexible and Easy to Extrude, Mold or Press
Low and High Temperature Performance
Insulator, heat dissipator
Excellent Sealing and Bonding Properties
Resistant to heat, flame chemicals, aging, oils, oxidation, ozone, tearing, Wear and extreme weather conditions
Chemistry
Silicone rubber (Polysiloxane, TA) is a semi-organic synthetic compound made from silicone polymers containing silicon, oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. This results is a very flexible structure with a wide range of high-performance physical, mechanical and chemical properties.
Chain of silicon and oxygen atoms, rather than carbon and hydrogen found in other rubber products makes it rubber-like while retaining some of the silicones’ extreme heat and chemical-resistant properties. Silicone’s chemical structure creates a fusion of the qualities of metals, with the diversity of plastic.
Reinforcing fillers are frequently added to improve properties like tear strength, elongation, and compression set resistance.
Silicone rubber is typically non-reactive, stable, and resistant to severe environments and temperatures ranging from -55 to 300 °C (-70 to 570 °F) while retaining its beneficial properties.
