Help with plastic choice for invention
Help with plastic choice for invention
(OP)
Hi everybody.
An invention I am working on requires a flexible, highly gas permeable plastic that can be molded into very thin layers, about 90 microns. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to start when it comes to plastic polymers. The plastic I have in mind would allow all the normal constituents of air - nitrogen, oxygen, argon, C02 etc - to very easily pass through the material. I know that one problem with plastic piping is the fact that many plastics are permeable to gases; I want to take advantage of this property and maximize the permeability, so I thought this forum may be a good place to start doing research. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
An invention I am working on requires a flexible, highly gas permeable plastic that can be molded into very thin layers, about 90 microns. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to start when it comes to plastic polymers. The plastic I have in mind would allow all the normal constituents of air - nitrogen, oxygen, argon, C02 etc - to very easily pass through the material. I know that one problem with plastic piping is the fact that many plastics are permeable to gases; I want to take advantage of this property and maximize the permeability, so I thought this forum may be a good place to start doing research. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.






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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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RE: Help with plastic choice for invention
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Help with plastic choice for invention
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
RE: Help with plastic choice for invention
As the OP gives no quantitative requirements it is very difficult to advise. Very easy is a very vague statment. The lack of a list of what cannot pass through is a problem. I guess there are some things otherwise a woven fabric or seive would work.
Regards
Pat
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