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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1987
William P Carl, Angleton, TX (US);
Emmett L Tasset, Lake Jackson, TX (US);
Robert E Aikman, Jr, West Columbia, TX (US);
The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention is a process for producing a modified polytetrafluoroethylene which comprises polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium containing a dispersing agent with a polymerization initiator source and then, copolymerizing tetrafluoroethylene one or more fluorinated modifiers having an acid functional group or a functional group which is convertible to the acid group as a copolymerizable modifier in the presence of the resulting polytetrafluoroethylene to a polymerization point past the Kraft point to produce highly porous, fibrous, stratified fluoropolymers having cores made of homopolymer of poly-tetrafluoroethylene coated with sheath layers which are made of a copolymer of polytetrafluoroethylene and one or more modifiers. The invention also includes a highly porous, fibrous, stratified fluoropolymer having a plurality of interconnected, fibrous-like projections wherein the stratified fluoropolymer has a core layer of polytetrafluoroethylene substantially completely covered by a copolymer of polytetrafluoroethylene and a fluorocarbon modifier.