Makrolon Polycarbonate materials offer a unique balance of helpful features including high temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastics and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is a very long-lasting material. Even though it features outstanding impact-resistance, it has got lower scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating may be applied to polycarbonate eye wear and polycarbonate exterior auto components. The characteristics associated with polycarbonate are similar to those of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA, acrylic), and yet polycarbonate is stronger, it is usable in a wider temperature range and is a bit more expensive. This plastic polymer is highly transparent to visible light and it has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate carries a glass transition temperature of about 150 °C (302 °F), consequently it softens slowly above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools should be held at higher temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to help with making strain- and reduced stress products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo massive deformations without breaking. For this reason, it is sometimes processed and formed cold using sheet metal techniques, for example forming bends on a brake. Even for sharp angle bends having a tight radius, no heating is generally necessary. This makes it attractive prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are crucial, which can not be produced from sheet metal. Understand that PMMA/Plexiglas, that is similar in looks to polycarbonate, but is brittle and can't be bent at room temperature.
Polycarbonate is often used in eye protection, along with other projectile-resistant viewing and lighting applications that would normally be thought of as requiring the use of glass, but require higher impact-resistance. Many different types of lenses are made of polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety goggles for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are typically made out of polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.
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