What is the silicone ? What are the mainstream silicone products?
Definition of silicone
Organosilicon, that is, organosilicon compounds, refers to compounds that contain Si-C bonds and at least one organic group is directly connected to the silicon atom. It is customary to refer to those compounds that connect the organic group to the silicon atom through oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, etc. The linked compounds are also referred to as organosilicon compounds. Among them, polysiloxane, which is composed of silicon-oxygen bonds (-Si-O-Si-) as the skeleton, is the most numerous, most deeply researched, and most widely used type of organosilicon compounds, accounting for more than 90% of the total usage. .
Silicone materials have a unique structure:
(1) Sufficient methyl groups on Si atoms shield the high-energy polysiloxane main chain;
(2) C-H is non-polar, making the intermolecular interaction very weak;
(3) The Si-O bond length is longer and the Si-O-Si bond angle is large.
(4) Si-O bonds are covalent bonds with 50% ionic bond characteristics (covalent bonds have directionality, ionic bonds have no directionality).