Abstract
Reliability and durability are strict requirements for silicone elastomers employed in high temperature applications, if long time device performance is desired Improving the thermal stability of silicone elastomers is a major challenge, addressed by both the scientific and the industrial community Nevertheless, traditional methods such as adding heat resistant fillers 1 or chemical modifications 2 still suffer from considerable shortcomings Here, it is demonstrated that the thermal degradation behaviour of silicone elastomers is affected strongly by network reactant stoichiometry 3 Comparative thermal degradation studies were performed on silicone elastomers synthetized with different stoichiometric ratios and thereby different fractions of elastic, dangling, and sol structures (Fig 1).
| Original language | English |
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| Publication date | 2018 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
| Event | 9th European Silicon Days - Saarbrucken, Germany Duration: 9 Sept 2018 → 12 Sept 2018 |
Conference
| Conference | 9th European Silicon Days |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Saarbrucken |
| Period | 09/09/2018 → 12/09/2018 |