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Ceria vs. PEEK

Ceria and PEEK belong to fundamentally different material chemistries. Ceria is a ceramic material, while PEEK is polymeric. Therefore, their performance will be even more dissimilar than would be suggested by the difference in properties. There are 10 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (19, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.

For each property being compared, the top bar is ceria and the bottom bar is PEEK.

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Material Properties

Compressive (Crushing) Strength, MPa 590
120 to 300
Density, g/cm3 7.6
1.3 to 1.5
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 180
4.0 to 24
Electrical Resistivity Order of Magnitude, 10x Ω-m 4.0
3.0 to 14
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 1900
330
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C 2340
340
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 390
1390 to 1700
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 13
1.5 to 10
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 25
36 to 73
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 11
15 to 52