五十年代末以来,我们已听到热塑性弹性体(TPE)将取代橡胶工业的无数传说。但过去热塑性弹性体在渗入橡胶制品市场时有过许多困难。商业上可得到的热固性橡胶类型的回顾说明在性能谱方面不存在大的间隙(表1)。因此,我们可以推断,TPEs将不仅仅通过填补热固性橡胶市场上的性能空白点而增长。一个相似的关于TPEs的成本—性能谱表示了五种主要类型的状况(表2)。 Since the end of the fifties, we have heard that Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE) will replace the myriad legends of the rubber industry. However, in the past, thermoplastic elastomers had many difficulties in infiltrating the rubber product market. A review of commercially available thermosetting rubber types shows that there is no large gap in the performance spectrum (Table 1). Therefore, we can infer that TPEs will not only increase by filling performance gaps in the thermoset rubber market. A similar cost-performance spectrum for TPEs represents five main types of conditions (Table 2).