POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE RESIN EXPANDED BEADS, AND MOLDED ARTICLES OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE RESIN EXPANDED BEADS

摘要

Provided are polyvinylidene fluoride resin expanded beads which can be molded by in-mold molding and thus stably provide, without impairing excellent characteristics inherent in polyvinylidene fluoride resin, molded articles having excellent mechanical properties. Polyvinylidene fluoride resin expanded beads, characterized in that when 1 to 3 mg of the expanded beads are subjected to heat-flux type differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) wherein the beads are heated from 25 °C to 200 °C at a temperature rise rate of 10 °C/min, the obtained DSC curve (of first heating ) has both an inherent endothermic peak which is inherent in polyvinylidene fluoride resin and one or more higher-temperature endothermic peaks which appear on the higher-temperature side of the inherent endothermic peak, the quantity of heat of melting of the higher-temperature endothermic peaks being at least 0.5 J/g.