Thermoplastics are important to many engineering applications. For this reason, it is important that high-performance materials are utilized to ensure quality, durability, and safety. An example of a very common and durable high-performance polymide-based plastic is Vespel. It has a high resistance to heat, dimensional stability, creep resistance, chemical resistance, and lubricity. It is designed to be utilized in extreme environments and hostile conditions.
However, Vespel is not the only material available. In fact, today, Celazole PBI is the highest performance engineering thermoplastic available. It provides the highest heat deflection temperature of 800° F, and highest mechanical property retention of any plastic more than 400° F. Moreover, its load carrying abilities at tremendous temperatures and wear resistance is more enhanced than other reinforced or unreinforced engineering plastics.
Some examples where Celazole has been used to replace Vespel for a better result include: high heat insulator brushings, ball valve seats, electrical connectors, and clamp rings. This is because it is an outstanding thermal insulator, and when other plastics are in a melting phase they don’t stick to PBI. Furthermore, it has amazing ultrasonic transparency. These attributes make this material ideal for insulator brushings in plastic manufacturing, molding equipment, contact seals, and semiconductor manufacturers find it highly attractive for vacuum chamber applications.
Although “thin-film vapor deposition” may not sound terribly exciting it is one of the most important ways of making integrated circuits, and is also on its way to becoming one of the building blocks of nanotechnology. Basically, it involves applying a thin coating to another surface, usually by coaxing the coating material from a vaporous or dissolved state using electricity, high heat, chemical reactions, evaporation, or other techniques. < Continue reading »
The next 10 years promises to be an exciting period in the history of computers and networks as nanotechnology takes off to redefine a new level in the way computers are manufactured. It’s not entirely radical as the Lithographic principles behind the manufacturing process can be adopted for nanotech processes. What is revolutionary are the minute molecular-level sizes at which those circuit boards can now be made. This is the core of nanotech Continue reading »
The stock market can present you with a lot of hot stocks every
day. Many of them are new technology stocks that come from the
nanotech, biotech, voip, healthcare, homeland defense or
internet sectors.
Most of them may seem promising, but the truth is that a good
number of these trading & investing opportunities are extremely
risky, while others are not as good as they seem. That’s why
it’s very important to know how to choose the best es Continue reading »
I would lie if I said that I know enough about nanotechnology, but from little I know, dangerous questions arise in my dangerous mind.
How nanotechnology and artificial intelligence development will effect the world of advertising and the business world as such?
To connect with my stream of thoughts, I suggest you to take 6 mins of your time and watch an interview with Ray Kurzweil who tells about his vision of the Singuarlity — a Continue reading »