Recently, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation announced that it has developed a Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) that combines light weight, rigidity and high heat resistance. It uses phenolic resin as the matrix resin and has high heat resistance even at 300°C. Performance will not decrease.
CFRP combines light weight and strength, and is expected to be increasingly used in mobile transportation and industrial machinery applications that pursue weight reduction requirements and production efficiency. However, CFRP based on general-purpose epoxy resins has problems in heat resistance and cannot fully meet the diverse needs of customers.
The heat-resistant temperature of CFRP with Mitsubishi Chemical’s epoxy resin as the base material is 100-200℃, and the new product developed this time with phenolic resin as the base material has high heat resistance, and its physical properties are not reduced even at a high temperature of 300℃.
Mitsubishi Chemical said that in addition to its high thermal conductivity, high rigidity, and lightweight characteristics, CFRP has also successfully imparted high heat resistance, which is expected to help customers solve problems that were previously difficult to solve. Now some customers have decided to try it out and will further promote the application of the material in aircraft, automobiles, rail transit, industry and other fields in the future.