Silicone, as a new high performance material, has excellent temperature resistance, weatherability, electrical insulation, physiological inertia, low surface tension and low surface energy. It is widely used in materials and chemical industry, and has broad prospects for development. More and more researchers pay attention to it.
Over the past few decades, China's silicone industry has made tremendous progress and made long-term development through the unremitting efforts of a number of silicone practitioners, both in quality and scale. At present, China's silicone industry is in a critical period from low-end to high-end, from upstream to downstream, and from local to overall situation. This requires that R&D personnel of silicone products have higher quality, so as to grasp opportunities, meet challenges and enhance the competitiveness and influence of China's silicone industry in the world.
Overall, silicone products have a wide range of applications and high technical threshold. Therefore, to become an excellent silicone R&D personnel, it is necessary to have the following qualities and abilities:
(1) Solid professional knowledge
China's silicone industry, upstream raw materials and basic silicone products, in terms of production technology and scale, has a very small gap with foreign countries, the current gap is mainly concentrated in downstream silicone terminal products. These organosilicon terminal products have high technology content, complex system and harsh application conditions, so technicians need solid professional knowledge to solve all kinds of problems in the process of product development and ultimately develop organosilicon products with excellent performance.
(2) Multidisciplinary Professional Background
The technology integration of silicone terminal products is relatively high. The knowledge and technology involved are not limited to the field of silicone. It often involves the knowledge of polymer chemistry, polymer physics, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and even physics. For example, some additives in silicone products need to be used in organic synthesis. This requires silicone R&D personnel to have a multi-disciplinary professional background, at least in peacetime to understand more about the relevant knowledge of various disciplines, to integrate, to help product development.
(3) Strong experimental operation ability
The research and development of organosilicon products is a very experimental work. It needs to do various experiments and tests, which tests the experimental operation ability of R&D personnel. Whether the experiment and testing process are professional and standardized has a great influence on the experimental results. Therefore, R&D personnel need to work diligently to improve their experimental operation ability.
(4) Rich product development experience
Research and development of organosilicon products is a systematic process. Every step is full of challenges, and rich experience in product research and development is needed in order to face the product calmly, from product project establishment, documentation collation, understanding of standard products, formulation of R&D plan, promotion of R&D process and later product pilot test and large-scale application. In the process of development, there are continuing problems, so we can quickly find ways to deal with them.
(5) Strong communication and communication skills
Silicone products and even any product research and development, we should avoid "building cars behind closed doors", need to be open attitude, more with the industry suppliers, customers and even competitors to communicate. Sometimes a hint from the supplier, or the customer's experience in the process of product application, may broaden your understanding of the product and provide a new perspective for product development.
(6) Strong sense of teamwork
Today's organosilicon products have complex systems and high technology content. They need team operations. They divide the R&D work into two parts. The members of the team are responsible for their best parts. Finally, they integrate their respective achievements to form a complete system. This requires R&D personnel to have a strong sense of teamwork, to cooperate with each other, to jointly develop competitive products.
(7) Spirit of hardworking, not arrogant and impatient
Silicone product research and development is not a smooth road, may face various difficulties, may last for a long time to achieve results, which requires researchers to be able to bear hardships and endure hardships, win or lose, and continue to promote research and development work until product performance reaches the set targets and smooth industrialization.
(8) Persistent learning ability
With the rapid development of application terminals, the technological renewal cycle of silicone products is becoming shorter and shorter, and