After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• define the characteristic properties of high-performance plastics such as fluoroplastics (PTFE, PFA, FEP, ETFE, PVDF, ECTFE, PCTFE), polyaryl ether ketones (PAEK), polyimides (PI), liquid crystalline plastics (LCP) etc.
• explain how electrically conductive polymers are constructed
  
• characterize properties of UV light-curable special polymers
• name manufacturing processes and characteristic properties of elastomers 
  

Polymers with High Temperature Resistance, Functional Polymers, Biodegradable Polymers, Elastomers

• frontal teaching
  
• calculation examples
  
• videos
  
• illustrative material

Exam questions as example:

Why is PEEK so interesting for biomedical applications?

Write 3 important properties of von PE-UHMW

Draw a typical stress-strain-temperature diagram (3D, first cycle) for a thermoplastic shape-memory polymer with a thermally induced shape-memory effect. Explain different steps

There are no lecture notes available for this course. The presentation slides will be accessible on TUWEL.

Literature related to the course i.a.

• G.W. Becker, D. Braun (Hrsg.): Kunststoffhandbuch 3/3 Hochleistungs-Kunststoffe Carl Hanser Verlag, München Wien, 1994
• H. Domininghaus, P. Elsner (Hrsg.), P. Eyrerer (Hrsg.), T. Hirth (Hrsg.): Kunststoffe – Eigenschaften und Anwendungen Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008

Basic knowledge about polymeric materials