The Use of Silicone Rubber

In biomedical engineering, polymer materials play a very important role, and silicone rubber is a particularly important class of medical polymer materials, it has excellent physiological inertia, is non-toxic, tasteless, has no corrosion, is anticoagulant, good compatibility with the body, can withstand harsh disinfection conditions. According to the need, it can be processed into pipes, sheets, films and special-shaped components, which can be used as medical instruments, artificial organs and so on. Nowadays there is special medical-grade silicone rubber at home and abroad. Silicone rubber in the following areas of excellence: high and low-temperature stability, inert (tasteless and odourless), transparent, easy to colour, wide hardness range (10-80 shoal hardness), chemical resistance, good sealing performance, compression deformation resistance. In addition to these excellent properties, silicone rubber is particularly easy to manufacture compared to conventional organic elastomers. Silicone rubber is easy to flow, so it can be moulded, calendered and extruded with low energy consumption.

In power system applications, the iron oxide additive can improve thermal conductivity but does not change the high electrical insulation performance of silicone rubber. This type of self-fusing tape fuses itself, making the silicone rubber conductive while retaining most of its other mechanical properties by adding carbon or another conductive substance as a powdered filler. As a result, when stretched and wrapped around cables, electrical joints, hoses and pipes, it will bond into a strong, seamless, rubber-like layer of electrical insulation and be waterproof.