Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a colorless organic thermoplasticpolymer in the polaryletherketone (PAEK) family, used in engineering applications. Polyetherketone (PEK) and Polyertheretherketone (PEEK) are durable high performance engineered plastics whose structures combine both ether and ketone groups. High performance engineered plastics like PEEK plastic products outperform metals in 5 key areas in cutting-edge engineering technology.
Engineed plastics technology so advanced that it replaces steel, aluminum, brass, bronze and other metals providing product design and manufacturing solutions never thought possible before.
PTFE the acronym for polytetrafluoroethylene, created quite by accident has become one of mankinds most revolutionary inventions. Polytetrafluoroethylene is a synthetic chemical compound best defined as any polymer, plastic or resin having the formula (C2F4)n, prepared from tetrafluoroethylene — a colorless, water soluble, flammable gas.
Notedforitsslippery,nonstickingproperties polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is most commonly associated with cookware and products under the 1945 Kinetic Chemicals patented trademark Teflon®. While this revolutionary chemical compound opened the door in the retail market for cookware, it has blown the doors off of industrial and technological applications. What is so remarkable is this door of serendipity opened quite by accident at the DuPont labs in 1938.
History of Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
In 1938, while working for DuPont Corporation in New Jersey, Chemist Dr. Roy Plunkett was attempting to make a new chlorofluorocarbon (DuPont brand name Freon®) refrigerant. When he and his associates were checking a frozen, compressed sample of tetrafluoroethylene they discovered that the sample had spontaneously polymerized into this white, waxy solid form later called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).
According to the DuPont Corporation, PTFE is inert to virtually all chemicals and considered the
most slippery material in existence. These properties have made it one of the most valuable and versatile technologies ever invented, contributing to significant advancements in areas such as aerospace, communications, electronics, industrial processes and architecture.
