Abstract: The present invention provides an energy curable composition including a compound having an aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety; at least two fluorinated alkylene, arylene or polyether moieties, each fluorinated alkylene, arylene or polyether moiety being linked to the aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety through an ether or thioether; and at least one ethylenically unsaturated moiety, each ethylenically unsaturated moiety being linked to one of the fluorinated alkylene, arylene or polyether moieties. The present invention also provides an energy curable composition including a compound having an isocyanurate moiety, three fluorinated alkylene, arylene, or polyether moieties linked to the isocyanurate moiety at the nitrogens of the isocyanurate, and at least one ethylenically unsaturated moiety linked to one of the fluorinated alkylene, arylene, or polyether moieties. The present invention further provides polymeric materials and optical devices made using these compositions.

Abstract: Provided is a fluoroplastic or latex comprising a nitrogen-containing cure site and units derived from a fluorinated monomer. Also provided is a curable blend comprising a fluoroplastic and a fluoroleastomer gum, wherein said fluoroplastic comprises a nitrogen-containing cure site and units derived from a fluorinated monomer. Also provided are cured, shaped articles, latex blends, and a process for preparing a fluoroplastic comprising: (a) introducing at least 60 weight percent of a first polymerizable composition comprising a fluorinated monomer into a polymerization reactor; (b) polymerizing said composition in said reactor; (c) introducing at least 70 weight percent of a second polymerizable composition comprising a nitrogen-containing cure site monomer into said reactor following addition of at least 80% by weight of said first polymerizable composition; and (d) copolymerizing said nitrogen-containing cure site monomer with said fluorinated monomer to form a fluoroplastic.

Abstract: The present invention is a fluorine containing ethylene copolymer obtained by the copolymerization of ethylene with suitable fluorine-containing comonomer compounds, wherein the fluorine-containing comonomer compound is present at a concentration of up to 40% by weight, based on the total weight of the ethylene copolymer.

Abstract: The present invention provides an energy curable composition including a compound having an aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety; at least two fluorinated alkylene, arylene or polyether moieties, each fluorinated alkylene, arylene or polyether moiety being linked to the aromatic or heteroaromatic moiety through an —O— or —S— linkage; and at least one ethylenically unsaturated moiety, each ethylenically unsaturated moiety being linked to one of the fluorinated alkylene, arylene or polyether moieties. The present invention also provides an energy curable composition including a compound having an isocyanurate moiety, three fluorinated alkylene, arylene, or polyether moieties linked to the isocyanurate moiety at the nitrogens of the isocyanurate, and at least one ethylenically unsaturated moiety linked to one of the fluorinated alkylene, arylene, or polyether moieties. The present invention further provides polymeric materials and optical devices made using these compositions.

Abstract: A curing composition of a fluororubber comprising a fluororubber which is curable with an organic peroxide, for example, an iodine-containing fluororubber, a polyfunctional unsaturated compound, and an organic peroxide, for example, dicumyl peroxide, in which the total amount of acetone and tert.-butanol contained in the decomposed products of the organic peroxide, which are generated at a curing temperature, is 2 moles or less per one mole of the decomposed products.

Abstract: An elastomer composition for crosslinking which comprises (A) a compound having at least two crosslinkable reactive groups represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 are the same or different and each is fluorine atom or a monovalent organic group, and (B) an elastomer having a curing site capable of reacting with the crosslinkable reactive group (I). The composition provides a crosslinked article which possesses improved mechanical strength and heat resistance and has excellent chemical resistance.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of fluoropolymers obtained by emulsion polymerization and containing at least one fluoropolymer A) with an average particle size (number-average) of at least 200 nm and at least one fluoropolymer B) with an average particle size (number-average) of not more than 100 nm, one of components A) and B) being a thermoplastic and the other component not being processable from the melt, and the entire dispersion having a non-monomodal number distribution of particle diameter, are suitable for saturating, impregnating surfaces, for example of fibers or sheet-like articles made from fibers or porous materials, in particular for coating glass-fiber fabrics as well as for formulating metal-coating systems.

Abstract: A composition comprises an oxetane oligomer or polymer or copolymer block wherein each repeat group has at least one ether side chain which is terminated by a fluorinated aliphatic group and optionally with the proviso that at least two different repeat units of the oligomer or polymer or copolymer have different Rf groups. The oxetane block is connected to a hydrocarbon polymer block derived from a mono or polyhydroxyl initiator. The terminal fluorinated alkyl groups impart good stain resistance to the oligomer or polymer or copolymer. In another embodiment, a fluorinated aliphatic or alkyl alcohol is reacted with an amino dicarboxylic acid with the reaction product thereof being subsequently grafted to a maleated polyolefin or a maleated polymer derived from a vinyl substituted aromatic monomer. The fluorinated alcohol also imparts good stain resistance to the grafted copolymer. Both compounds can be utilized as an additive in polymers as for example various polyolefins.

Abstract: Methods and systems for modifying a polymer are disclosed herein. A solution is generally provided having a surface thereof, wherein the solution comprises a plurality of highly branched polymers. The plurality of highly branched polymers can be chemically bound to a plurality of surfactants or order to modify the surface and produce a polymeric material thereof. The surface is tailored with a plurality of functional groups that self-assemble and are deliverable to the surface of the solution, including interfaces thereof, thereby permitting a high-density assembly of functional groups to operate in concert with one another in order to generate a modified surface thereof. The polymeric material produced thereof can be reversibly adaptable to environmental conditions through a blooming of varying surface functional group to the surface of the solution.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to polymeric treatment preparations for textiles and other fibrous substrates that impart water and oil repellency to fibers, yarns, textiles, or other fibrous substrates. More particularly, this invention comprises an aqueous solution, emulsion or suspension of (a) a fluorinated polymer that contains reactive groups that can complex with metal atoms that have a formal charge of 2 or greater, and (b) one or more metal atoms that have a formal charge of 2 or greater. The invention is further directed to the process for treating fibrous substrates with textile preparations in one step that provide water/soil repellency that is durable to repeated cleanings and to abrasion. This invention is further directed to the yarns, fibers, fabrics, textiles, webs, finished goods, or nonwovens (encompassed herein under the terms “textiles” and “fibrous substrates”) treated with the textile-reactive water- and soil-resistant preparation of the invention.

Abstract: Compositions comprising a fluoropolymer having interpolymerized units derived from a nitrogen-containing cure site monomer and an amidine-containing curative are provided. Also provided are a method of making a fluoropolymer and fluoropolymer articles containing curable or cured fluoropolymer compositions.

Abstract: It is possible to provide the heat resistant material and coating material for OA equipment which comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having heat resistance, abrasion resistance, non-sticking property against toner and oil resistance in addition to flexibility and are used particularly on surfaces of fuser roll and belt. Those materials comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having an elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A and a non-elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment B, and the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A comprises not less than 90% by mole of perhaloolefin unit as a recurring unit and imparts flexibility to the whole polymer.

Abstract: A cross-linkable fluoropolymer dispersion is described and involves a polymer product of at least one polymerizable acrylic and/or vinyl containing monomer and at least one hydrolytically stable silane containing monomer which are in the presence of an aqueous dispersion of at least one fluoropolymer. The present invention further relates to cross-linkable fluoropolymer blends wherein at least one polymer contains acrylic units, vinyl units, or both and at least one hydrolytically stable silane or silane containing group in the presence of at least one thermoplastic fluoropolymer. The silane or silane containing group can alternatively be present in the thermoplastic fluoropolymer. Methods of making the cross-linkable fluoropolymers are also described as well as products containing the cross-linkable fluoropolymer dispersions such as paints and coatings.

Abstract: A process for preparing a graft copolymers is provided comprising exposing a polymeric base material to a dose of ionizing radiation, and then contacting the irradiated base material with a microemulsion comprising at least one fluorostyrenic monomer, water and water-miscible solvent. The graft copolymer may be formed into a membrane, including ion exchange membranes.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a fluorocopolymer, which is excellent in stability and film-forming properties as an aqueous dispersion, and which gives a coating film excellent in mechanical strength and improved in transparency, water resistance and stain resistance. A stable aqueous dispersion of a fluorocopolymer obtained in such a manner that a fluorocopolymer comprising polymerized units based on a vinyl monomer having a reactive group as the base is subjected to a composite treatment or a mixing treatment with a (meth)acrylate containing a reactive group capable of forming a bond by reaction with the above reactive group or the like.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing graft copolymer is made from a backbone of an olefin polymer material to which is graft polymerized (a) at least one gaseous fluorinated monomer such as vinylidene fluoride, (b) at least one fluorinated acrylic acid or ester, (c) a mixture of (a) and (b), or (d) a mixture of (a) and/or (b) and a non-fluorinated monomer such as methyl methacrylate. An organic peroxide or a polymeric peroxide is used as the initiator for the graft polymerization process. The graft copolymers have improved surface properties and oxygen barrier properties, and improved thermal stability.

Abstract: The present invention relates to preparation of fluorinated core-shell particles with water and oil repellency, and more particularly, to preparation of emulsion-type coating material with good water and oil repellency using only small amount of expensive fluorinated monomers, which comprise a shell wherein a large amount of hydrophobic fluorinated monomers are included and a core wherein no fluorinated monomers are included.

Abstract: An elastomer sealing material having low dielectric constant and low dielectric dissipation, which is satisfactory with both of resistance to oxygen plasma and non-adhesion to quartz and can be applied to apparatus utilizing microwaves, is disclosed. The plasma-resistant fluorine-based elastomer sealing material comprises a fluorine-based elastomer having a divalent perfluoropolyether or divalent perfluoroalkylene structure in the main chain thereof and having two or more hydrosilyl groups and addition-reactive alkenyl groups in the terminals or side chains thereof, and a polymer having two or more hydrosilyl groups in the molecule and being capable of addition reacting with the alkenyl groups, the fluorine-based elastomer being crosslinked with the polymer.

Abstract: This invention concerns functional fluorine-containing copolymers compositions and ionomers derived therefrom. The ionomers formed are useful in electrochemical applications such as batteries, fuel cells, in exchange membranes, sensors and the like.

Abstract: In a component having vibration-damping properties, a mixture for manufacturing the component, and a method of manufacturing such a component, the component has granular and/or grain- and/or flake-shaped piezoelectric particles which are embedded in a polymer matrix in a proportion of at least 10 volume %. In order to improve the damping effect, at least some of the piezoelectric particles have a polarization which is different from zero.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a conductive composition comprising (i) a fluoropolymer, (ii) an electrically conductive product and (iii) a triblock copolymer ABC, the three blocks A, B and C being linked together in this order, each block being either a homopolymer or a copolymer obtained from two or more monomers, block A being linked to block B and block B to block C by means of a covalent bond or an intermediate molecule linked to one of these blocks via a covalent bond and to the other block via another covalent bond, and such that: block A is compatible with the fluoropolymer, block B is incompatible with the fluoropolymer and is incompatible with block A, block C is incompatible with the fluoropolymer, block A and block B. The invention also relates to the components manufactured with the above composition. These components may be plates, films, tubes, rods, centrifugal pump components and containers.

Abstract: Monomers containing two or more hexafluoroisopropyl groups and containing plural saturated rings are polymerized to form polymers of high transparency optical properties at 157 nm wavelengths and improved etch resistance compared to polymers formed from single ring monomers.

Abstract: Functional trifluorovinyl monomers, process for the copolymerization of trifluorovinyl monomers with fluoroolefins and use of these trifluorovinyl monomers in forming fluoroelastomers. Copolymers resulting from this copolymerization process and process for crosslinking these copolymers.

Abstract: Fluorochemical ester compositions comprising one or more compounds or oligomers having at least on fluorine-containing repeatable unit and at least one fluorine-containing terminal group are described. The compositions are useful as coatings or incorporated as melt additives. The fluorochemical compositions impart oil and water repellency to the substrate. In other aspects, this invention relates to processes for imparting oil and water repellency characteristics to substrates and articles.

Abstract: The present invention provides block copolymers with semifluorinated LC side groups (single or monodendron groups). The block copolymers can be blended with a thermoplastic elastomer block copolymer, e.g., styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS) to provide a surface active block copolymer (SABC).

Abstract: A graft polymer, which is obtained by grafting a branch polymer having a fluoroalkyl group onto a trunk polymer through a linkage having a —C(═O)NH— group, gives a solvent-based water- and oil-repellent composition having high water- and oil-repellency, high product stability and high dilution stability.

Abstract: Polymers comprising recurring units of an acrylic derivative of fluorinated backbone represented by formula (1) are novel. R1, R2 and R3 are independently H, F, C1-20 alkyl or fluorinated C1-20 alkyl, at least one of R1, R2 and R3 contains fluorine, and R4 is an acid labile group. Using such polymers, resist compositions featuring low absorption of F2 excimer laser light are obtained.

Abstract: A process for making a vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene networked polymer comprising the steps of: providing a poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) copolymer; mixing the copolymer with a peroxide and a coagent to form a curing mixture; and processing the curing mixture such that the peroxide, in combination with the coagent, crosslinks the copolymer to form a networked polymer.

Abstract: To provide the fluorine-containing material which is capable of giving various products, particularly products and parts for OA equipment, is excellent in flexibility, mechanical strength, viscoelasticity and mold-processability and possesses improved non-tackiness. The flexible fluorine-containing material comprises (a) the fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A and the non-elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment B in which the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A comprises not less than 90% by mole of a perhaloolefin unit and (b) the fluorine-containing resin having a crystalline melting point or glass transition temperature of not less than 150° C., in which a weight ratio (a)/(b) is 1/99 to 99/1.

Abstract: Acrylic Modified Fluoropolymers based on vinylidene fluoride polymers are disclosed wherein the acrylic phase is capable of entering into crosslinking reactions. The final cured products provide superior solvent extractability resistance to the fluoropolymer phase.

Abstract: &agr;,&bgr;,&bgr;-Trifluorostyrene and derivatives thereof synthesized in two steps from 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethylene. In the first step, 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethylene is reacted with a base, a metal salt such as zinc chloride and an optionally amine to form a trifluorovinyl metal complex. In the second step, the trifluorostyrene or derivative is obtained by reacting the trifluorovinyl metal complex with an aryl transfer agent such as, for example, an aryl triflate or an aryl halide, in the presence of a metal catalyst and optionally a coordinating ligand. Both steps may be carried out in one reactor.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for forming graft copolymers from perfluoroolefins and perfluorovinyl ethers having fluorosulfonyl and fluorosulfonate functionality with selected polymers, and the uncrosslinked graft copolymers resulting therefrom.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of fluoropolymers obtained by emulsion polymerization and containing at least one fluoropolymer A) with an average particle size (number-average) of at least 200 nm and at least one fluoropolymer B) with an average particle size (number-average) of not more than 100 nm, one of components A) and B) being a thermoplastic and the other component not being processable from the melt, and the entire dispersion having a non-monomodal number distribution of particle diameter, are suitable for saturating, impregnating surfaces, for example of fibers or sheet-like articles made from fibers or porous materials, in particular for coating glass-fiber fabrics as well as for formulating metal-coating systems.

Abstract: According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a molding material, for example, a sealing material for semiconductor-related production apparatuses which comprises a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer being excellent in mechanical properties (particularly at high temperature), abrasion resistance and transparency and ensuring reduced contamination and reduced gas permeation while maintaining inherent characteristics of a fluorine-containing elastomer such as flexibility, elasticity, sealing property, chemical resistance and heat resistance. A molding material comprising a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having an elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment and a non-elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment, in which the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment imparts flexibility to the whole polymer and has perhaloolefin units as a recurring unit in an amount of not less than 95% by mole.

Abstract: This invention describes hydrophobic, oleophobic, and alcohol-resistant fibers, films, and molded articles comprising synthetic organic polymer(s) in which, dispersed within the fiber, fabric or molded article are fluorochemical graft polymeric additives. Also disclosed are the additives which confer the desirable properties to the synthetic organic polymers to which they are added. The method of preparing such fibers, films and molded articles, as well as articles made therefrom, are disclosed as well.

Abstract: A resin molded article having a contact angle of water of 50 degrees or less on its surface is produced by molding a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin composition containing a polymer having a perfluoroalkyl group of a (meth)acrylate having a perfluoroalkyl group and a (meth)acrylate having a hydrophilic group, or a compound having a perfluoroalkyl group which is obtained by reacting an epoxy compound having a perfluoroalkyl group with a polyalkylene oxide having a terminal hydroxyl group, and heating the molded article. The molded article has a hydrophilic surface and improved stain-proofing properties.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of a fluorocopolymer, which is excellent in stability and film-forming properties as an aqueous dispersion and which gives a coating film excellent in weather resistance and mechanical strength and improved in water resistance and stain resistance. The aqueous dispersion comprises water and dispersed therein a fluorocopolymer which comprises (a) polymer units based on a fluoroolefin, (b) polymer units based on propylene, (c) polymer units based on ethylene and/or (d) polymer units based on butylene and which has a melting point within a range of from 40 to 150° C.

Abstract: A polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising a membrane-form polymer electrolyte, a cathode disposed on one side of the polymer electrolyte, and an anode disposed on the other side of the polymer electrolyte, wherein the cathode comprises a catalyst and an ion exchange resin, and the ion exchange resin is made of a polymer comprising the following segments A and segments B: Segments A: segments made of a polymer having sulfonic acid groups; and Segments B: segments made of a fluoropolymer having substantially no ion exchange groups.

Abstract: A curing composition of a fluororubber comprising a fluororubber which is curable with an organic peroxide, for example, an iodine-containing fluororubber, a polyfunctional unsaturated compound, and an organic peroxide, for example, dicumyl peroxide, in which the total amount of acetone and tert.-butanol contained in the decomposed products of the organic peroxide, which are generated at a curing temperature, is 2 moles or less per one mole of the decomposed products.

Abstract: A method of producing a polymer comprises the steps of forming a heterogeneous reaction mixture comprising at least one addition polymerizable monomer, a supercritical fluid, and a stabilizer, wherein the stabilizer comprises a chain which is soluble in the supercritical fluid and functional end-group which is not polymerizable by a free-radical mechanism, and polymerizing said at least one monomer in the reaction mixture. In a preferred system for polymerizing acrylic monomers, the fluid comprises supercritical carbon dioxide and the stabilizer comprises an acid-functionalized perfluoropolyether.

Abstract: It is possible to provide the heat resistant material and coating material for OA equipments which comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having heat resistance, abrasion resistance, non-sticking property against toner and oil resistance in addition to flexibility and are used particularly on surfaces of fuser roll and belt. Those materials comprise a fluorine-containing multi-segment polymer having an elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A and a non-elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment B, and the elastomeric fluorine-containing polymer chain segment A comprises not less than 90% by mole of perhaloolefin unit as a recurring unit and imparts flexibility to the whole polymer.

Abstract: A photosensitive polymer comprises a fluorinated ethylene glycol group and a chemically amplified resist composition including the photosensitive polymer.

Abstract: A block copolymer including a block of residues of a low surface tension (meth)acrylate monomer; a block of residues of a monomer free of hydroxyl group and amine group residues; and, optionally, a third block of residues of a monomer free of hydroxyl groups and amine groups. The first, second and third blocks are made of different residues from each other and the block copolymer has a polydispersity index of less than 2.5. A controlled radical polymerization method is disclosed to make the low surface tension block copolymers. The method includes the steps of sequentially adding a first monomer composition that is free of hydroxyl groups and amine groups and a second monomer composition that includes the low surface tension monomer to a suitable atom transfer radical polymerization initiator and polymerizing the monomer compositions to form a block copolymer.

Abstract: A block copolymer including a block of residues of a low surface tension (meth)acrylate monomer; a block of residues of a monomer free of hydroxyl group and amine group residues; and, optionally, a third block of residues of a monomer free of hydroxyl groups and amine groups. The first, second and third blocks are made of different residues from each other and the block copolymer has a polydispersity index of less than 2.5. A controlled radical polymerization method is disclosed to make the low surface tension block copolymers. The method includes the steps of sequentially adding a first monomer composition that is free of hydroxyl groups and amine groups and a second monomer composition that includes the low surface tension monomer to a suitable atom transfer radical polymerization initiator and polymerizing the monomer compositions to form a block copolymer.

Abstract: Aqueous dispersions of fluoropolymers obtained by emulsion polymerization and containing at least one fluoropolymer A) with an average particle size (number-average) of at least 200 nm and at least one fluoropolymer B) with an average particle size (number-average) of not more than 100 nm, one of components A) and B) being a thermoplastic and the other component not being processable from the melt, and the entire dispersion having a non-monomodal number distribution of particle diameter, are suitable for saturating, impregnating surfaces, for example of fibers or sheet-like articles made from fibers or porous materials, in particular for coating glass-fiber fabrics as well as for formulating metal-coating systems.

Abstract: Porous polyolefins are especially efficiently free-radically grafted using (fluorinated alkyl)olefins, vinylsilanes or certain carboxylic acids or their esters as the grafting molecules. The use of a solvent to swell the porous polyolefin is sometimes advantageous.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing crosslinkable polymers containing silane groups having at least one hydrolyzable radical by free-radical-initiated grafting of the base polymers with an olefinically unsaturated silane having at least one hydrolyzable radical, wherein the grafting is carried out in the presence of (a) an alkylsilane of the formula I, R1(SiR2nX3−n)m,  (I)  where R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 33 carbon atoms or a divalent hydrocarbon radical having from 4 to 24 carbon atoms, R2 is a hydrocarbon radical having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, X are identical or different hydrolyzable radicals, n is 0, 1 or 2 and m is 1 or 2 and/or (b) a fluoroalkylsilane of the formula R3xSiR4yXz,  (II)  where R3 is a fluoroalkyl radical, R4 is an alkyl radical and X is a hydrolyzable radical, x is an integer from 1 to 3, y is 0, 1 or 2 and z is an integer from 1 to 3,  with the proviso that the sum x+y+z&equa

Abstract: This invention provides a method of treating fibrous substrates, such as leather, by contacting the substrate with a fluorochemical compound comprising: a fluorochemical oligomeric portion comprising an aliphatic backbone with a plurality of pendant fluoroaliphatic groups, each fluoroaliphatic group having a fully fluorinated terminal group and each independently linked to a carbon atom of the aliphatic backbone through an organic linking group; an aliphatic moiety; and a linking group which links the fluorochemical oligomeric portion to the aliphatic moiety. The fluorochemical compounds provide desirable oil, water and stain repellency to fibrous substrates.

Abstract: An electrostrictive graft elastomer has a backbone molecule which is a non-crystallizable, flexible macromolecular chain and a grafted polymer forming polar graft moieties with backbone molecules. The polar graft moieties have been rotated by an applied electric field, e.g., into substantial polar alignment. The rotation is sustained until the electric field is removed. In another embodiment, a process for producing strain in an elastomer includes: (a) providing a graft elastomer having a backbone molecule which is a non-crystallizable, flexible macromolecular chain and a grafted polymer forming polar graft moieties with backbone molecules; and (b) applying an electric field to the graft elastomer to rotate the polar graft moieties, e.g., into substantial polar alignment.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for transferring data between computers over a network such as the internet or an intranet and is particularly useful for updating web pages with information particularly while being viewed by a user. The method and apparatus disclosed help to reduce the amount of data that is required to be downloaded between the server and client computers and also helps to reduce the flicker which can be experience when internet page data is refreshed.