PFA vs. PMP
Both PFA and PMP are thermoplastics. There are 15 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (12, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.
For each property being compared, the top bar is PFA and the bottom bar is PMP.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elongation at Break, % | 300 | |
| 30 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 30 | |
| 24 |
Thermal Properties
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 260 | |
| 140 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 300 | |
| 230 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 1000 | |
| 1750 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 0.25 | |
| 0.17 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 120 | |
| 120 |
Electrical Properties
| Dielectric Constant (Relative Permittivity) At 1 Hz | 2.1 | |
| 2.1 |
| Dielectric Strength (Breakdown Potential), kV/mm | 22 | |
| 28 |
| Electrical Resistivity Order of Magnitude, 10x Ω-m | 16 | |
| 14 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 2.2 | |
| 0.83 |
| Refractive Index | 1.4 | |
| 1.5 |
Common Calculations
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 3.9 | |
| 8.0 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 10 | |
| 22 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 0.12 | |
| 0.12 |