Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Raytech Corporation

Gen Kojima

Masaaki Yamabe

Shun-ichi Kodama

Hiroshi Wachi

Masaru Nakamura

Kazuya Oharu

Kiyoshi Matsumoto

Isamu Kaneko

Akira Takada

Shunichi Samejima

Masashi Matsuo

Masao Unoki

Seitoku Kaya

Motoi Kamba

Michio Hisasue

Tsutomu Koyama

Takeshi Abe

Yasuhiko Sawada

Atsushi Funaki

Minoru Iida

Hideto Suzuki

Masayuki Tamura

Mituharu Morozumi

Yoneho Tabata

Shigetoshi Ikeda

Katsuyuki Akiyama

Minoru Kawai

Tohru Kawasaki

A polytetrafluoroethylene resin comprising polytetrafluoroethylene having a two-dimensional branched structure in the molecule is produced by exposing polytetrafluoroethylene to an ionizing radiation at a dose of no more than 10 kGy.

Polytetrafluoroethylene resins that can be processed by shaping, shaped products thereof, and processes for producing the resins and shaped products

Process for forming a glass sheet

A method for cyclic polymerization, wherein a fluorine-containing monomer is subjected to cyclic polymerization, the fluorine-containing monomer having two carbon-carbon multiple bonds, each having different polymerizability, as linked by a linking chain having a straight chain portion to from 2 to 7 atoms, and having a fluorine content of at least 10% by weight.

Cyclic polymerization

A fluorine-containing thermoplastic resinous polymer which consist essentially of a group (a) of repeating units of a cyclic structure to be represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## (where: n is an integer of 1 to 2); the polymer having a molecular weight such that the intrinsic viscosity thereof may become at least 0.1. A fluorine-containing thermoplastic resinous polymer which consists essentially of:

Novel fluorine-containing cyclic polymer

A flame-retardant resin having excellent moldability composed essentially of a fluorine-containing copolymer obtained by the copolymerization of tetrafluoroethylene, chlorotrifluoroethylene and ethylene, wherein the copolymer comprises from 10 to 60 molar % of tetrafluoroethylene, from 20 to 60 molar % of chlorotrifluoroethylene and from 20 to 40 molar % of ethylene, and has a thermal decomposition temperature of at least 325.degree. C.

Flame-retardant resin

A fluorine-containing elastomer having excellent low temperature resistance and oil resistance comprises ethylene units (E) and fluorovinyl ether units (FV) having the formula CF.sub.2 .dbd.CFOX (X represents a C.sub.1 -C.sub.9 perfluoroalkyl group which can have one or more ether bond) at a molar ratio of (E) to (FV) of 95:5 to 30:70 and at a total content of (E) and (FV) of at least 70 mole %.

Fluorine-containing elastomer having excellent low temperature

A curable composition comprising an elastomeric vinylidene fluoride copolymer, an organic peroxide and a vulcanization accelerator, characterized in that said copolymer contains unsaturated bonds introduced by reacting an untreated elastomeric vinylidene fluoride copolymer dispersed in an aqueous medium, with an aqueous alkaline solution containing an onium compound.

Curable composition of elastomeric vinylidene fluoride copolymer

A copolymer for an fluorine-containing elastomer having excellent low temperature resistance and alcohol resistance comprises vinylidene fluoride units and fluorovinyl ether units having the formula CF.sub.2 =CFOX (X represents a C.sub.3 -C.sub.9 perfluoroalkyl group which has ether bond having 1-3 oxygen atom) at a molar ratio of vinylidene fluoride units to fluorovinyl ether units of 95:5 to 50:50 and at a total content of the units of at least 80 mole %.

Copolymer for fluorine-containing elastomer having excellent low

A process for producing a carboxyl group-containing fluoropolymer comprises reacting a hydroxyl group-containing fluoropolymer in an organic solvent with a dibasic acid anhydride represented by the general formula ##STR1## where R represents a bifunctional organic group, to convert at least a part of hydroxyl groups into ester groups represented by the general formula ##STR2## where R is as defined above.

Process for producing carboxyl group-containing fluoropolymer

A propylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer is produced by copolymerizing propylene and tetrafluoroethylene in a molar ratio ranging from 95/5 to 40/60 in an aqueous medium containing tertiary butanol ranging from 5 to 30 wt.%, an emulsifier ranging from 0.01 to 10 wt.% and a redox catalyst of a combination of (1) a water soluble persulfate, (2) a water soluble iron salt, (3) a hydroxymethanesulfinate and (4) ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid or a salt thereof at pH of 8 to 10.5 and at a temperature of 0.degree. to 50.degree. C.

Process for producing propylene-tetrafluoroethylene copolymer

A copolymer for a fluorine-containing elastomer having excellent low temperature resistance and alcohol resistance comprises vinylidene fluoride units and fluorovinyl ether units having the formula CF.sub.2 =CFOX (X represents a C.sub.3 -C.sub.9 perfluoroalkyl group which has ether bond having 1-3 oxygen atom) at a molar ratio of vinylidene fluoride units to fluorovinyl ether units of 95:5 to 50:50 and at a total content of the units of at least 80 mole %.

A curable fluorocopolymer comprises 40 to 60 mol % of fluoroolefin units, 5 to 45 mol % of cyclohexyl vinyl ether units, 5 to 45 mol % of alkyl vinyl ether units and 3 to 15 mol % of hydroxyalkyl vinyl ether units and has an inherent viscosity of 0.05 to 2.0 dl/g. in tetrahydrofuran at 30.degree. C.

Curable fluorocopolymer

Fluorine-containing elastomers comprise the grafted copolymer havig rubber-like elasticity and having chemical linkages at the reactive sites of fluorine-containing polymeric segments and organopolysiloxane segments.

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