Wacker unveils silicone film and magnetized silicone

摘要

Wacker unveiled several new Elastosil products for the silicone industry at K 2013 in Diisseldorf, Germany, including a world first, Elastosil Film, an extremely thin film made of silicone rubber. The film, available in thicknesses down to 20 microns, is supplied in rolls and can be used, for instance, as a functional membrane or a dielectric elastomer in pioneering sensor and actuator technologies. It is manufactured in clean-room conditions without the use of solvents. For improved handling, Elastosil Film comes with an intermediate backing from which they can easily be peeled off intact. Wacker's patent-registered production process is said to provide immaculate and extremely uniform silicone films with a defined thickness. The film thickness across the entire width and length of the film web deviates from the specification by ±5% at most. This particular property, together with the material's typical silicone characteristics, permits technical applications that were previously very hard or even impossible to implement on an industrial scale.