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Makrolon Polycarbonate materials have a unique balance of useful features this includes temperature resistance, impact resistance and optical properties position polycarbonates between commodity plastic materials and engineering plastics.
Polycarbonate is definitely a long-lasting material. Although it offers extraordinary impact-resistance, it's got reduced scratch-resistance and thus a hard coating can be applied to polycarbonate eye protection and polycarbonate exterior automotive components. The properties associated with polycarbonate tend to be like those of Acrylic PMMA materials, and yet polycarbonate is going to be stronger, it is usable in a wider temperature range and is a bit more expensive. This plastic polymer is highly transparent to visible light and has better light transmission characteristics than several types of glass.
Polycarbonate has a glass transition temperature of around 150 °C (302 °F), in order that it softens gradually above this point and flows above about 300°C (572 °F). Tools are required to be held at higher temperatures, generally above 80 °C (176 °F) to produce strain- and almost stress free products.
Unlike most thermoplastics, polycarbonate can undergo large deformations without cracking or breaking. Subsequently, for small changes in shape, it can be processed and formed   at room temperature using standard sheet metal techniques, which include forming bends on a brake. For even sharp angle bends having a tight radius, no heating is usually necessary. This makes it attractive prototyping applications where transparent or electrically non-conductive parts are required, which may not be produced from sheet metal. Keep in mind that PMMA/Plexiglas, which happens to be similar in looks to polycarbonate, but it's brittle and can't be bent at room temperature.
Polycarbonate is commonly utilized in eye protection, and also in other projectile-resistant viewing and lighting applications that would normally require the use of glass, but require much higher impact-resistance. Many kinds of lenses are made of polycarbonate, including automotive headlamp lenses, lighting lenses, sunglass/eyeglass lenses, swimming and SCUBA goggles, and safety visors for use in sporting helmets/masks and police riot gear. Windscreens in small motorized vehicles are commonly made out of polycarbonate, such as for motorcycles, ATVs, golf carts, and small planes and helicopters.

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