3m Innovative Properties Company

Dyneon Gmbh

Gernot Loehr

Klaus Hintzer

Albert Killich

Tilman C Zipplies

Denis Duchesne

Thomas J Blong

Ralph Kaulbach

Friedrich Kloos

Ludwig Mayer

Michael C Dadalas

Erik Peters

Werner Schwertfeger

William D Coggio

Werner M A Grootaert

Robert E Kolb

Bernhard Hirsch

Gerald Lee Bauer

Georg Burkard

Herbert Strasser

Arthur A Ponelis

Jeffrey D Weigelt

Harald Kaspar

Maria P Dillon

Attila A Molnar

Susan S Woods

Kirsten J Fronek

Michael C Dadaias

A tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymer with high drawability is provided. Also provided is a process employing the polymer and an article coated with the polymer.

Tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene copolymers with higher drawability

The present invention provides an aqueous coating composition comprising (i) particles of a non-melt processible polymer of tetrafluoroethylene and (ii) a non-fluorinated polymer selected from the group consisting of a polysulfone, a polyamide, a polyimide, a polyamide-imide, a polybismaleimide and mixtures thereof, wherein said particles are core-shell particles whereby the shell comprises a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and a partially fluorinated or non-fluorinated comonomer. The aqueous coating composition may be used for providing a primer coating on a substrate such as a metal or glass substrate. Such primer coating may provide good or excellent non-stick coatings combined with good or excellent scratch and wear resistance of the coating. Also, such primer coating may provide for good to excellent PTFE coatings that can resist hot salt water. The aqueous coating composition may also be used to provide other coating layers of a multi-layer coating.

Primer coating of PTFE for metal substrates

The present invention provides an aqueous non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene dispersion comprising non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene particles in an amount between 30 and 70% by weight based on the total weight of the dispersion and one or more non-ionic surfactants and wherein at least a part of said non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene particles comprise polytetrafluoroethylene polymer chains having repeating units comprising ionic groups. The invention further provides a method for obtaining the dispersions.

Aqueous dispersions of polytetrafluoroethylene particles

An aqueous non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene dispersion having non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene particles in an amount of 30 to 70% by weight and an amount of non-ionic surfactant between 2 and 15% by weight based on the weight of polytetrafluoroethylene solids. The dispersion is free of fluorinated surfactant or contains fluorinated surfactant in amounts of not more than 200 ppm based on the amount of polytetrafluoroethylene solids. At least part of the non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene particles comprise an effective amount of ionic end groups in the polytetrafluoroethylene polymer chains.

Aqueous dispersions of polytetrafluoroethylene having a low amount of fluorinated surfactant

A process for manufacturing fluoroolefins comprising perfluorinating a starting material comprising at least one carbon-bonded hydrogen by electrochemical fluorination, dissociating this separated effluent in a pyrolysis, quenching and separating the effluent to yield tetrafluoroethylene and/or hexafluoropropylene.

Process for manufacturing fluoroolefins

The invention relates to high purity fluoropolymers and processes for making such materials. These polymers are particularly suited for applications in the semiconductor industry. The process comprises removal of unstable polymer end groups by fluorination and removal of heavy metal impurities by extraction with an aqueous acid medium.

High purity fluoropolymers

The present invention provides a method of making an aqueous dispersion of non-melt processible polytetrafluoroethylene, the method comprising: (a) an aqueous emulsion polymerization of an amount of tetrafluoroethylene to produce a final amount of polytetrafluoroethylene solids and optionally up to 1% by weight based on the amount of tetrafluoroethylene of a perfluorinated comonomer, wherein said aqueous emulsion polymerization is initiated with a free radical initiator and the polymerization is carried out in the presence of a fluorinated surfactant, and wherein before completing the feeding of said amount of tetrafluoroethylene but after feeding at least 80% by weight of said amount of tetrafluoroethylene, free radicals capable of introducing ionic end groups or precursors thereof in the polytetrafluoroethylene polymer are caused to be formed at a rate that without counter measures would cause an increase in the polymerization rate of at least 20%; (b) reducing the amount of fluorinated surfactant in the thus obtained aqueous dispersion to an amount of not more than 200 ppm, preferably not more than 100 ppm and more preferably not more than 50 ppm based on the amount of polytetrafluoroethylene solids. The invention further provides an aqueous dispersion of polytetrafluoroethylene particles and the use thereof in coating a substrate.

High purity fluoropolymers are obtained by the emulsion polymerization process, removing essentially all ions and coagulating the polymer essentially without adding ions. These polymers are useful in the field of electronic devices.

Ultra-clean fluoropolymers

A multimodal fluoroplastic terpolymer composition is provided. The terpolymer can be extruded at high extrusion speeds without having to reduce its molecular weight. The terpolymer is useful by itself; in combination with conductive fillers to provide an electrostatically dissipative composition; and as a polymer processing aid. The polymer has a low molecular weight component, a high molecular weight component and, optionally an ultra-high molecular weight component.

Fluoroplastic polymers with improved characteristics

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