Abstract: Copolymers of perfluoro(1,3-dimethyl-2,2-dioxole) with perfluoro(butenyl vinyl ether) and, optionally, with a third comonomer are amorphous in all monomer proportions, and soluble in perfluoro(2-butyl tetrahydrofuran). These copolymers are suitable in many high technology applications, especially where solubility is important, e.g., in applying coatings to substrates or articles for protection against mechanical, chemical, or environmental hazards. Dipolymers of the present invention have lower glass transition temperatures than dipolymers of perfluoro(1,3-dimethyl-2,2-dioxole) with tetrafluoroethylene having the same monomer proportions.

Abstract: Copolymers of perfluoro(1,3-dimethyl-2,2-dioxole) with perfluoro(butenyl vinyl ether) and, optionally, with a third comonmer are amorphous in all monomer proportions, and soluble in perfluoro(2-butyl tetrahydrofuran). These copolymers are suitable in many high technology applications, especially where solubility is important, e.g., in applying coatings to substrates or articles for protection against mechanical, chemical, or environmental hazards. Dipolymers of the present invention have lower glass transition temperatures than dipolymers of perfluoro(1,3-dimethyl-2,2-dioxole) with tetrafluoroethylene having the same monomer proportions.

Abstract: Repeat units having pendant functional groups increase the solubility of polymers containing repeat units of perfluoro-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxole.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for polymerizing at least one fluoromonomer in the presence of a cyclic perfluorinated amine. Perfluoro-N-methylmorpholine is a preferred cyclic amine.

Abstract: A method of protecting machine-readable markings on the surfaces of articles consisting in applying to the machine-readable markings a thin layer of an amorphous fluoropolymer, which may be, i.a., a copolymer of perfluoro(1,3-dioxole) or of perfluoro(2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxole) with a fluoromonomer selected from a specifically recited group, especially, with tetrafluroethylene; or a cyclic aliphatic homopolymer in which the repeating unit contains an aliphatic ring of 5-9 members, at least two of the ring members being carbon atoms independently substituted either by fluorine atoms or by perfluoromethyl groups, at most two of the ring atoms being oxygen atoms, the remaining portions of the repeating units, when present, being pefluoromethylene groups.