What is the role of TPE/TPR thermoplastic elastomer resin

  TPE resin thermoplastic elastomer TPE/TPR, also known as synthetic rubber or synthetic rubber. Its products have the excellent properties of traditional cross-linked vulcanized rubber in terms of high elasticity, aging resistance and oil resistance, and at the same time have the characteristics of easy processing and wide processing methods of ordinary plastics. It can be produced by injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and other processing methods, and 100% of the edges of the water outlet are directly used after crushing. Both simplify the processing process and reduce processing costs, so thermoplastic elastomer TPE / TPR material has become the latest material to replace traditional rubber, its environmental protection, non-toxic, comfortable to the touch, exquisite appearance, so that the product more creative. Therefore, it is also a more humane, high-grade new synthetic materials, but also the world's standard environmental protection materials, thermoplastic elastomer, referred to as TPE or TPR, is the abbreviation of Thermoplastic rubber. It is a class of elastomer with the elasticity of rubber at room temperature and plasticized at high temperature. The structure of thermoplastic elastomer is characterized by chemical bonds consisting of different resin and rubber segments, resin segments form physical cross-linking points by virtue of inter-chain forces, and rubber segments are highly elastic chain segments that contribute to elasticity. The physical cross-linking of the plastic segments varies reversibly with temperature, showing the plastic processing properties of thermoplastic elastomers. Therefore, thermoplastic elastomers have the physical and mechanical properties of vulcanized rubber and the process processing properties of thermoplastics, and are a new type of polymer material between rubber and resin, often referred to as third-generation rubber. Since 1958, when Bayer first produced thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), TPE has been rapidly developed, especially after the introduction of styrene-based thermoplastic elastomers in 1963, the theory on the preparation of thermoplastic elastomers has been gradually improved and the application areas have been further expanded.


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