In the automotive industry, Nanocyl EPOCYL™ offers the advantage of enhanced impact resistance properties and crack propagation resistance.
The automotive industry today requires such properties for high-end cars like Formula 1 racers to ensure the protection of the driver and the structural integrity of the car in case of damage and crashes.
All of these properties represent breakthrough technologies for the final customer.
EPOCYL™ also enhances the fatigue resistance of automotive parts such as springs. Carbon Nanotube modified resins enable the sustainability of a higher number of cycles.
Besides the mechanical properties, the automotive industry is increasingly requiring process optimization. This is especially true for painting with the development of electrostatic technology.
The advanced form of painting requires the parts to be conductive or at least antistatic, and can be accomplished by using our EPOCYL™-E grade products which give the required level of conductivity to the parts at a competitive cost.
EPOCYL™ also overcomes the problem of nonconstant coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) inside a composite structure. It does so by achieving a better microstructural homogeneity inside the part, especially by avoiding thermal stresses induced by different CTE and poor thermal dissipation.
