Organic Glasses

The technical name for transparent solid materials made from organic polymers as polyacrylates, polystyrene, and polycarbonates and from the copolymers of vinyl chloride with methyl methacrylate is organic glass. In industry, the term “organic glass” is usually understood as a sheet material produced by the block polymerization of methyl methacrylate. Organic glass may be treated by vacuum or pneumatic forming and by stamping. It can be processed mechanically and can also be glued or welded. It is used as a structural material in aircraft, automotive vehicles, and ships. It is also used for enclosing hotbeds and for glazing greenhouses, domes, windows, and porches. Buildings are often decorated with organic glass, and the material is also used in fashioning instrument parts, prostheses, lenses and prisms used in optics, and pipes used in food processing. The present study gives knowledge about description, types, production and latest development of organic glasses