What is PTFE?
TEFLON is the commercial name used by the Copyright owner for PTFE material, used in PRO-RS Brake Hose. PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) is a problem solver for a lot of high performance and very demanding application. When application parameters are outside the limits of many hose types, PRO-RS PTFE hoses are the answer.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic material accidentally invented in the late 1930s while a chemist was endeavoring to develop a new type of perfluorethylene-based refrigerant. Rather than achieving a chlorofluorocarbon, the scientist was surprised to find that the perfluorethylene used in the process reacted with the iron content of its container and polymerized under pressure. Less than a decade later, this new material was being distributed on a commercial scale and was eventually patented under the name Teflon™. However, it would be another 20 years before PTFE would hit the frying and become known as the first non-stick coating for cookware. In fact, this material was used for a variety of other purposes at first. During World War II, PTFE was used to prevent the escape of radioactive materials from the facility designated to produce the first atomic bomb in the U.S., an objective dubbed as the Manhattan Project. This facility represented an impressive piece of real est
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a generic name for Teflon. In general, this is a highly fluorinated material with a fairly wide range of molecular weights, up into the hundreds of thousands. Lubricants based on PTFE offer an extremely low static coefficient of friction, which is at the heart of their effectiveness as lubricants. PTFE also is extremely stable and nonflammable; clean, dry, non-oily and non-staining. The material is biologically inert and does not support biological growth (that is, it is non-pyrogenic). PTFE usually is sold and packaged in one of three ways: as a dry powder, as pellets, or as a dispersion in a carrying agent. To improve lubricity, many companies take PTFE solids (the powders or the pellets) and grind them into micropowders. These particles will have an irregular shape and be of an inconsistent size. Although inexpensive, these are generally inferior as dry lubricants. The carrying agents used on PTFE micropowders usually are based on alcohol, water or
PTFE stands for PolyTetraFluoroEthylene, which is the chemical term for the polymer (CF2)n. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), (DuPonts trademark of Teflon) is a thermoplastic member of the fluoropolymer family of plastics. PTFE has a low coefficient of friction, excellent insulating properties, and is chemically inert to most substances. It also can withstand high heat applications and it is well know for its anti-stick properties.
