What makes Silicone Oils Special?

Nowadays, more and more people focus on new materials to replace the old polluted or low-efficiency ones. In many areas, research & development of new materials are urgently required and then growing fast. Also, for some materials which are developed maturely but still not been widely applied in industries, will have a bright future.

One of the potential materials is the silicone oil which has been used in some markets but still have a way wider scope of applications.

An Introduction to Silicone, Silicone Oils & Rubbers

Silicone is one of the richest elements stored on the earth; it is the second largest richest element in the earth crust which is only lower than oxygen. The mixture or compounds of silicones have been used for thousand years in human history. However, the pure element silicone was discovered just in 19^th century, the wider application of it in industries even a litter later than that. Silicone has many similar characteristics with carbons which are famous for its stable features. Thus silicone is also been considered as another element which may lead to create living creatures just like carbons. The silicones are waterproof, could endure extreme temperatures and seasons. They could also prevent the products from odors and they are strongly insulated. Basically no corrosions could be made upon silicone and silicone-made products.

Silicone oils are referred to the linear polysiloxane products which are in liquid form under the room temperature. Silicone oils are now applied in different industries such as cosmetics, electronic materials, plastics and many other areas.

Silicone rubbers could be considered as a special type of silicone oil, it has many variants according to the processing methods and its slightly-different physical characteristics.

Special Characteristics of Silicone Products

As mentioned above, the general perceptions of silicone is its stable characteristics. However, there are also many characteristics which only owned by silicone and silicone-made products.

1.     Silicone products are environmentally friendly.

To be differed from carbons which are always linked to air pollutions, silicones are friendlier to the environment due to it does not react with many other compounds or elements. Its compounds will not produce toxic gases or materials either. It could be recycled effectively and efficiently. There are many food grade products are made of silicone-based products due to the reason above.   

2.     Silicone products are stable.

When we mention silicone things are stable. It always refers to its unbroken, endurable nature. Silicone products are usually soft and shapeable which makes it to be widely used in rings & kitchen-use manufacturing- maybe you could check your kitchen and you may find one of these products! The silicone products usually have a long product life cycle which may be longer than 10 years. These make many customers and even manufacturers to prefer using silicone and its relevant goods.

3.     Silicone products are affordable.

It is not that proper to say silicones are cheap. However, to compare with other materials, silicones are definitely an economical choice for many manufacturers. Silicones’ rich storage and easy way of digging them make the price of silicones are affordable and controllable. To be way different from many other elements (like many metals), silicones have much more stable pricing curves. Suppliers & manufacturers thus no need to worry too much of pricing factors’ influences on their businesses.

4.     Silicone products are easy to be customized.

It is due to its characteristics, the silicone has been developed many different types of its variants. For example, Shengbangfan’s silicone oil liquids have many different types which are aimed at different customers’ needs. There are some types like Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane or D5 are for the materials for the cosmetics, and there are also Dimethylcyclosiloxane or DMC for textile industry. Even silicone oils could be used for some medicines (like 1,4 diacetoxy-2-oxabutane)! Even for silicone oils, it also has many different variants which to meet customers’ different special needs.

Special Applications of Silicone Products

Silicone elements (pure silicones) are firstly applied in steel & silicone-aluminum alloy and many other alloys’ manufacturing processes. Later, the applications of silicones have been extended to agricultural and other industrial aspects. However, even in today, silicone is just regarded as an add-on material in many industries rather than the main raw materials due to the development of silicone is still at its early stage but also many industries do not recognize the effectiveness and efficiency of silicone and its stemmed products.  

PDMS Silicone oils, as one of the main development applications from the great silicone industry, start gradually replacing the main role of other polluted or unrecyclable rubbers or carbon-made materials. Silicone oils are now been used in cosmetics, textiles, plastics, electronics and many areas due to its stability.   

It is because the pdms oils are usually in liquid forms they are always one of the best materials to be put in different molds. These allow manufacturers to put decorative patterns, waves, shaped logos and many other accessories on the products by using different molds with the same type of raw materials. These may help the factory owners to save lots of unnecessary expenditure and help them to develop a more varieties of products to promote its sales.

Other Advantages of Silicone Products

Pure dimethyl silicone oils or methyl silicone oils are easy to be transported. To be more specific, the stable characteristic silicone has made them no need ant extra processing during the transportation process.

Liquid forms provide a lot of pros, especially in transportations. Liquid forms of silicone oils could save lots of spaces during the transportation which means the relative shipping costs will be lower than any other solid form materials.

Liquid forms also make the adjustment of the variants of products to be easier than solid ones. The relevant manufacturing time of making silicone oils are very fast. For example, we shengbangfan could provide a large amount of silicone oils in less than 2 weeks which include the time from getting your order to ship the products to the relevant port and to be on the ship.

Summary

Today’s silicone faces a crossing road now. It is since more countries put more effort on environmental protection and promoting new energies. The relevant needs of recyclable materials like silicone oils will have a rapid increasing need from customers from all over the world. Silicone liquids do also take a more and more important role as the raw material in different industries and in different countries.

As one of the most stable elements in the world, the scope of application of it will be anywhere we could see in our near-future daily life. So do silicone oils.