[curiousgeorge]

Hi Guys,

ive read up about different polymers and saw high performance polymers, yet there is no definitive definition of what is a high performance polymer. does anybody have any information/definition as to what it is?

Cheers

[magician4]

maybe you find something usefull here:
http://www.tribology-abc.com/abc/polymers.htm

regards

Ingo

[curiouscat]

I don't think there is a strict rule to classify. But usually a performance polymer will have at least one very exceptional property. This could be its hardness, wear resistance, temperature window, load bearing capacity etc.

In most cases these are more expensive per kg than a run of the mill commodity polymer. Oftentimes production volumes are much smaller than the millions of tons of a commodity polymer.

The materials are often blends sometimes of a polymer & a non polymeric additive. Frequently tight specs. on MW or polydispersity etc. is possible.

Market differentiation is higher; company A and company B might make a substantially different product. For some large users batch control might give a designer polymer that matches its optimal application properties very precisely.

[curiousgeorge]

maybe you find something usefull here:
http://www.tribology-abc.com/abc/polymers.htm

regrads

Ingo

Thank you. This is probably the most definitive definition where they actually stipulate and exemplify each area.

[curiousgeorge]

I don't think there is a strict rule to classify. But usually a performance polymer will have at least one very exceptional property. This could be its hardness, wear resistance, temperature window, load bearing capacity etc.

In most cases these are more expensive per kg than a run of the mill commodity polymer. Oftentimes production volumes are much smaller than the millions of tons of a commodity polymer.

The materials are often blends sometimes of a polymer & a non polymeric additive. Frequently tight specs. on MW or polydispersity etc. is possible.

Market differentiation is higher; company A and company B might make a substantially different product. For some large users batch control might give a designer polymer that matches its optimal application properties very precisely.

Thank you Curiouscat, nice nice too

That was my understanding too, but needed to see it to believe it. One thing is for sure though, the higher the performance, the costlier it becomes