diet
After washing up, have a delicious breakfast. If you thought that food and beverages should have nothing to do with silicones, you'd be wrong.

Friends who go to eat barbecue must be familiar with the oil paper on the electric stove. Why can a piece of paper be baked on the stove with such a high temperature, because it is brushed with silicone resin, which is non-stick, waterproof, and oil-proof. And high heat resistance (230 ℃) and other characteristics.

When you go to the bakery to buy bread, you will put a layer of paper on the plate, which is brushed with food-grade silicone oil to prevent sticking.

The feeding bottle used when feeding the child is made of silicone rubber, and the baby spoon used is also food-grade silicone. In addition, there are many aspects of the diet that use silicone materials.

car
After washing and eating breakfast, we drove to work. Of course, as one of the main means of transportation in modern times, the car is also the place where silicone materials are used.

Car tires made of room temperature vulcanized silicone have stronger resistance to aging and chemical resistance, good elasticity, and no pollution; silicone sealant can ensure better air tightness and light transmittance for lights; gel potting material It is the main glue used in automotive electronic devices to protect engine control modules, ignition coils and rectifiers; silicone additives can reduce the friction coefficient in PC/ABS parts for a long time and avoid noise in the car cockpit. A car contains at least about 3 kilograms of siloxane.

architecture
After driving to the unit and entering the modern office building, you are even more embraced by silicone materials. The glittering blue glass curtain wall is so firmly attached to the wall because of the power of glass glue! Silicone sealants are widely used in construction, and silicone materials are used in building exterior wall caulking and aluminum alloy door and window oil injection.

At the same time, silicone materials are also used in waterproof construction. For example, silicone emulsion can be used as a surface treatment agent for the surface treatment of bricks, tiles, natural stones, gypsum, cement, ceramics and other building materials, as well as basements, swimming pools, Waterproof treatment of water towers, tunnels and other projects.

High temperature resistance, oxidation resistance, moisture resistance, extreme temperature resistance, chemical resistance and other characteristics can ensure that the building has a good sealing effect for more than ten years in the case of wind and rain.

electrical appliances
When you get to the office and start your day's work, you use silicone materials in many office supplies. Silicone sealants are used in various structural bonding seals of computer devices and LED lamp packaging.

Silicone provides a perfect seal to protect extremely sensitive electronic components and components from external contamination or movement. This is important for ensuring the long-term stability and performance of many electronic products. In addition, silicone materials will not corrode or spontaneously ignite, meeting the most stringent safety and purity requirements in the production and manufacture of electronic products.

The insulating properties of silicone help protect the circuits of TVs, computers and video monitors from heat, dirt and dust. At the same time, silicone is ideal for high-voltage applications, insulating above-ground and underground cables and power lines.

As electronic devices get thinner, smaller, and faster, the excellent physical properties of silicones make them useful in new applications: high temperature and low temperature stability, excellent insulation, strength, Elasticity and toughness, moisture resistance, chemical stability, UV resistance and other environmental protection properties, can bond and protect a variety of materials.

medical
People are not golden stones, and it is inevitable that they will occasionally get a small illness. When we go to the hospital to see a doctor, we will use a lot of medical equipment. Among these equipment, silicone also plays a big role! Silicone rubber materials have good biocompatibility, including physiological inertness and non-toxicity, and are not prone to adverse reactions in contact with human tissues. Therefore, silicone rubber has a wide range of applications in the medical field. At present, silicone rubber is mainly used in medical devices, oral materials, artificial organs, tissue substitutes, etc.

The most representative ones are medical catheters, such as gastric tubes, decompression tubes, capillary drainage tubes, abdominal drainage tubes, and urinary catheters. Silicone rubber can also be used as oral soft lining, impression material, etc. At the same time, silicone rubber can also be used as a substitute for artificial organs and tissues, such as artificial breasts, artificial ears, etc. Contact lenses, as we know them, are also made of silicone rubber.

In addition to silicone rubber, silicone oil is also widely used in the medical field. When a patient has a gastroscope, they will first drink a liquid, and that liquid contains silicone oil. Because the stomach cavity and intestinal tract contain a lot of air bubbles and mucous membranes, and silicone oil has a defoaming effect, which can make gastroscopy more accurate.

Now you know how widely used silicone is, and, in addition to the application fields mentioned in the article, silicone materials are also used in exploration, oil pollution treatment, sports and other fields. It is precisely because silicone has such a wide range of uses that silicone is called "industrial monosodium glutamate"!