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Description
Premium Medical Grade PEEK exhibits a unique combination of very high rigidity, hardness, tensile strength, and bending strength, ensuring high toughness and fatigue strength. Its high heat deflection temperature and excellent resistance to disinfectants and detergents make it an ideal choice for medical applications. Furthermore, it offers exceptionally high hydrolytic stability, allowing for repeated sterilization in steam without any issues.
Characteristics of Premium Medical Grade PEEK include:
- Excellent sterilisability with all standard methods (superheated steam, gamma, E-beam, EtO)
- Very high stability, rigidity, and toughness
- Very high thermal stability and heat deflection temperature
- Very high creep resistance
- Very high dimensional stability
- Very high radiation resistance
- Very high hydrolysis resistance
- Good wear properties
- Low water absorption
- Inert
These Premium Medical Grade products are suitable for medical and pharmaceutical applications with direct body contact with tissue, bone, skin, and mucosa for up to 24 hours. All raw materials used for these medical grade products are food grade and have been tested and evaluated by an independent accredited testing laboratory, meeting the following biocompatibility requirements:
- ISO 10993-1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process
- ISO 10993-5: Tests for in vitro cytotoxicity
- ISO 10993-12: Sample preparation and reference materials
- ISO 10993-18: Chemical characterization of materials
- USP Class VI
Typical applications for Premium Medical Grade PEEK include surgical instruments, dental instruments, connectors, sealing rings, spacers, dosing systems, in vitro diagnostics, grippers, holders, insulation sleeves, and primary packaging in the pharmaceutical sector.
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Measurement |
|---|---|
| Material | PEEK |
| Shape | Sheet |
| Colour | Black |
| Density (g/cm³) | 1.32 |
| Water absorption (%) | 0.4 |
| Yield stress (MPa) | 115 |
| Elongation at break (%) | 16 |
| Tensile modulus of elasticity (MPa) | 4210 |
| Ball indentation hardness (MPa) | 250 |
| Notched impact strength (kJ/m²) | 4 |
| Shore hardness (scale D) | 90 |
| CLTE (10⁻⁶K⁻¹) | 25 |
FAQ
- What are the common applications for this material? Typical applications include surgical instruments, dental instruments, and pharmaceutical packaging.
- Is this material suitable for sterilization? Yes, it has excellent sterilisability with all standard methods.
- What are the biocompatibility standards met by this product? It meets ISO 10993 and USP Class VI requirements.