High Performance Polymers

11M2216

Master

English

5.0

only winter term

1 semester

Technological development in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics, communications technology and aerospace, also with regard to sustainability aspects, is linked to the accelerated development of high-performance polymers. High-performance thermoplastics, fluoropolymers, blends, composites and elastomers play an important role here. In this module, students gain specialist knowledge of these material classes and can define possibilities for adapting the properties of polymers.

1. areas of application, requirement profiles and subdivision of high-performance polymers

2. possibilities/processes for adjusting the properties of polymers (concept of the structure-property relationship of polymers)

3. application examples

- High-performance thermoplastics (adjustment of temperature resistance, applications)

- Fluoropolymers

- Blends (classification, mixing laws, compatibilizers)

- Composites (classification, fillers, functional additives)

- Elastomers (compound components and formulation structure, compound production and processing, basic mechanical properties and material laws, ageing and media resistance, technological properties)

In the seminar part of the course, these topics are explored in greater depth using current literature and the concept of the structure-property relationship is understood and discussed in this literature and other approaches are developed.

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination or
• oral exam

The examiners choose the type of examination from the options provided and inform the students at the beginning of the semester.

Written exam: see the applicable study regulations

Oral exam: see the applicable General Section of the Examination Regulations (ATPO)

The module assumes basic knowledge of the chemical and physical structure of polymers as acquired in introductory modules on polymer chemistry and physics.

The following basic literature is recommended:

Gottfried W. Ehrenstein: Polymer-Werkstoffe: Struktur - Eigenschaften - Anwendung, Hanser - Verlag, 2011

Students will be able to name all important high-performance thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers and define and differentiate between their areas of application, properties and application limits.

Students will be able to compare the structure of high-performance plastics with their properties and describe the relationships between them. 

Students can derive the properties of high-performance plastics from their structure and discuss the concept of structural property relationships.

Students will be able to apply the concept of the structure-insertion relationship to questions of material development.

Students develop their communication and cooperation skills by discussing the seminar planning in teams and organizing the preparation cooperatively.

Students develop a professional self-image. They reflect on ways of increasing high-performance properties with regard to the impact on material or production costs in relation to the requirement profiles in practice or research.

• Petersen, Svea

• Petersen, Svea
• Susoff, Markus Lothar