Material selection is critical due to the function of your product. Different mechanical or optical properties are needed to make a product happen. Axxicon has a broad know-how about different injection moulding compounds. We like to advice you which material fits best for your product.
Below an overview of materials we are comfortable working with;
| Thermoplastic Polymer | Tg (°C) | Contact Angle (pristine material) | Water absorption (%) | Solvent Resistance | Optical transmissivity Visible / UV |
Remark | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclic Olefin (co)polymer | COC / COP | 70°-155° | ~90° | 0.01 | Excellent | Excellent/Excellent | Outstanding optical properties |
| Polymethylmethacrylate | PMMA | 100°-122° | ~70° | 0.3-0.6 | Good | Excellent/Good | Low Hydrophobicity |
| Polycarbonate | PC | 145°-148° | ~82° | 0.12-0.34 | Good | Excellent/Poor | Best for Thermocycling |
| Polystyrene | PS | 92°-100° | ~88° | 0.02-0.15 | Poor | Excellent/Poor | Best to Scaleup |
| Polypropylene | PP | -20° | ~102° | 0.10 | Good | Excellent/Fair | limited for microfluidic application |
