What Is ESD Antistatic PA NYLON Sheet ?

October 25, 2024

What is polyamide and what is anti-static PA?

Polyamide, also known as nylon (Polyamide, PA for short), is a general term for thermoplastic resins containing repeated amide groups - [NHCO]. Its name is based on the number of carbon atoms in the synthesized monomer. Nylon is known for its high mechanical strength, stiffness, hardness and toughness, as well as excellent abrasion resistance and good sliding properties, as well as good mechanical vibration damping ability, aging resistance, dimensional stability and no creep phenomenon in the field of precision control. These qualities make nylon widely used in many fields, especially in machining performance. In precision control, nylon shows good anti-wear performance, ensuring the stability of the product during long-term use. As a large category of engineering plastics, nylon series is widely used in many fields and is one of the most widely used of the five major engineering plastics.

Anti-static nylon sheet is a product with nylon as the base material, designed for anti-static field. It excels in antistatic applications compared to compounds defining a single composition of purity.MC501CD nylon has high mechanical strength and superior abrasion resistance, while exhibiting good chemical resistance. This nylon sheet is further enhanced by the addition of fillers to improve its performance in antistatic applications, making it ideal for use in electronics assembly, precision instrument manufacturing, and other industries requiring antistatic protection.

Static electricity is a problem in the electronics production and manufacturing industry. Any static electricity generated during manufacturing, testing, packaging, transportation or use may cause damage to semiconductor devices, electronic devices and assemblies and components, which may result in short-circuiting, damage or failure of the device. Therefore, anti-static measures are required for the transportation, processing, packaging, storage and use of these electronic devices.

Antistatic PA boards are directly related to the problem of static electricity generation and damage. It can eliminate static electricity, thus making electronic components and equipment not subject to the hazards of static electricity, and ensuring the quality stability and reliability of electronic components. For example, in the production of semiconductor chips, the surface of the chip, if struck by static electricity, may lead to chip damage or failure. Therefore, insulating anti-static materials are essential in the manufacturing process of semiconductor chips. Anti-static PA sheet is just one of the good materials.

Characteristics of anti-static PA sheet

Anti-static PA sheet is a special polyimide material with anti-static and high temperature resistance properties. Its characteristics mainly include:

1. Excellent anti-static performance: anti-static PA sheet has good anti-static performance, which can avoid the accumulation and discharge of static electricity, thus avoiding the damage of electronic components and equipment.

2. Excellent high temperature resistance: anti-static PA plate has good high temperature resistance, can work for a long time in a high temperature environment without deformation and burns and other phenomena.

3. excellent mechanical properties: anti-static PA sheet has high strength, high rigidity, high wear resistance and other mechanical properties, can withstand greater physical pressure and friction.

4. Strong corrosion resistance: anti-static PA sheet has good corrosion resistance, can resist the erosion of various chemical media.

5. good dimensional stability: anti-static PA board has good dimensional stability, not easily affected by environmental temperature, humidity and other factors, can maintain the original shape and size for a long time.

6. Low surface resistivity: anti-static PA sheet has low surface resistivity, which can effectively dissipate static electricity.

7. Easy processing: anti-static PA sheet is easy to process and molding, according to different needs for cutting, drilling, bending and other operations.

What is the abrasion resistance and mechanical strength of anti-static PA sheet?

Anti-static PA sheet (polyamide sheet) is an engineering plastic that is based on traditional polyamide materials (such as PA6 or PA66), and is endowed with anti-static properties by adding antistatic agents or conductive fillers. In addition to the antistatic function, PA material itself has abrasion resistance and mechanical strength, while antistatic PA sheet demonstrates overall performance while inheriting these advantages. We can discuss the wear resistance and mechanical strength of antistatic PA sheet from the following aspects:

1. Abrasion resistance

PA materials, especially PA6 and PA66, are known for their abrasion resistance. The presence of highly crystallized chain segments in their molecular structure gives the materials high strength and hardness, resulting in low wear rates of PA sheets in sliding friction or dynamic contact. Antistatic PA sheet maintains this characteristic while adding antistatic agents, which enable the material to effectively reduce the phenomenon of tiny particle adsorption caused by static electricity accumulation, thus further enhancing the wear resistance.

Especially when rubbing against high hardness materials such as metal, anti-static PA sheet shows excellent abrasion resistance. This characteristic makes it ideal for use in a number of high wear industries, such as sliding parts in automation equipment and wear parts in conveyors. Compared to other plastics, such as PTFE or PEEK, PA sheet's wear resistance is often more economical and consistent.

2.Mechanical strength

Anti-static PA sheet in terms of mechanical strength, especially tensile strength and impact strength. PA material has a high tensile modulus and tensile strength, which means that it is in the case of stretching or force, can withstand large external forces without deformation or fracture. Anti-static PA sheet inherits this feature, and by optimizing the molecular structure and additive formulation, it is able to maintain high strength and toughness for a long time in applications.

The toughness of PA material is especially outstanding in terms of impact strength. Anti-static PA plate in low and high temperature conditions still maintain a high impact strength, not easy to brittle, which makes it suitable for some bad working environment, such as heavy machinery and equipment in the guard plate, wear-resistant components.

3. Temperature impact

Anti-static PA plate in different temperature conditions, the mechanical strength of the performance is relatively stable. In the low-temperature environment, PA material embrittlement temperature is low, so it can maintain good toughness and abrasion resistance in sub-zero environment; in the high-temperature environment, PA material thermal stability is good, the use of the temperature can reach 120 ° C or so, it is not easy to occur softening or melting.

However, it should be noted that the performance of anti-static PA sheet will change in a high humidity environment. As PA materials are hygroscopic to moisture, moisture absorption may result in a slight reduction in the strength of the material, although its toughness may increase. This requires special consideration in certain applications.

Combining abrasion resistance and mechanical strength, antistatic PA sheet is a high-performance engineering plastic for scenarios where antistatic features are required. In everyday industrial applications, anti-static PA sheet not only effectively prevents equipment failure or sparks caused by static electricity, but also maintains stable physical properties in high-intensity, long-duration use environments. Its abrasion resistance makes it particularly useful in dynamic components, transmissions and friction contact surfaces, while its high mechanical strength ensures that it still performs well under high mechanical loads.

How to recognize the quality and use of anti-static PA sheet?

Antistatic PA plate quality identification: antistatic PA plate appearance of milky white to light yellow, does not contain mechanical impurities and surface moisture of the uniform particles, particle size greater than 40 particles / grams with tiny black spots particles containing no more than 2%, characterized by toughness, shock resistance, high mechanical strength and heat resistance, impact strength is better, higher melting point, molding and processing performance is good, large water absorption, saturated water absorption rate of about 11%, easy to melt in sulfuric acid phenol or formic acid. Melted in sulfuric acid phenolics or formic acid, low temperature embrittlement temperature of minus 20 degrees -30 degrees.

Anti-static PA plate transparent PA: good tensile strength, impact strength, rigidity, abrasion resistance, chemical resistance, surface hardness and other properties, high light transmission, similar to optical glass, processing temperature of 300 - 315 ℃, molding and processing, the need for strict control of barrel temperature, the melt temperature is too high will be due to degradation of the products lead to discoloration, the temperature is too low will be due to poor plastification and the impact on the transparency of the products. Mold temperature as low as possible, mold temperature will be high due to crystallization and reduce the transparency of the products.

Anti-static PA plate use: anti-static PA plate is a good material to replace steel, iron, copper and other metals with plastic, is an important engineering plastics; cast nylon is widely used in place of wear-resistant parts of machinery and equipment, instead of copper and alloys for the wear-resistant parts of the equipment. Applicable to the production of wear-resistant parts, transmission structure parts, household appliances parts, automobile manufacturing parts, screw to prevent mechanical parts, chemical machinery parts, chemical equipment. Such as turbines, gears, bearings, impellers, cranks, instrument panels, drive shafts, valves, blades, screws, high pressure washers, screws, nuts, seals, bobbins, sets of simple, bushing connectors.

Anti-static PA sheet specifications:

1, Sheet thickness from 0.5mm to 2.0mm can be produced, the conventional width is 500mm to 1000mm, coil, customized width can not exceed 1200mm, length is not limited.

2, Sheet thickness from 2mm to 180mm can be produced, 2-10mm common specification is 1000mm * 1000mm, 10-180mm common specification is 600 * 1000mm. can also be customized according to requirements, the width can not exceed 1200mm, the length is not limited.

3, Bar diameter from 1mm to 250mm can be produced, the conventional length of 1000mm, customized length is not unlimited. mc nylon bar conventional length of 500mm.

Color:

The original color is milky white, can also be customized black and color, customized color MOQ is 500KG.

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