Abstract: The present invention relates to branched perfluoroalkanes which, having bonds between a quaternary carbon atom and a tertiary carbon atom, easily undergo a homolytic scission of the C--C bond thereby releasing (non-persistent) radicals which may be used as initiators of polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers.A further object of the present invention are new perfluoroalkanes having at least 9 carbon atoms belonging to the above described group.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the synthesis of new terminal olefins, perfluoro 2,4-dimethyl 3-ethylpentene and perfluoro 2-isopropyl 3,3-dimethylbutene, and to the subsequent fluorination thereof in order to obtain highly branched perfluoroalkanes, capable of providing perfluoroalkyl radicals, which are utilizable as initiators for the polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorine-containing copolymer which comprises the following monomers as essential components:(a) a fluoroolefin,(b) a hydroxyalkyl crotonate, and(c) a vinyl monomer other than the above monomers (a) and (b). The present invention further provides a coating composition comprising the above fluorine-containing copolymer and a crosslinking agent having a functional group which reacts with hydroxyl group.

Abstract: A molding is produced by thermoplastic shaping of at least one partially crystalline polymer which comprises, exclusively, polymerized units of vinylidene fluoride and other fluorine-containing monomers which contain only one C.dbd.C double bond, contains 20 to 50% by weight of polymerized units of vinylidene fluoride and has a melt index of at least 1 g/10 min at 250.degree. C. and 11 kg load, without addition of substances which contain polymerizable double bonds, and the molding is subsequently treated with a minimum dose of 50 kGY of ionizing rays at a minimum dose rate of 2 Gy/s. Moldings are thus obtained in a simple manner which have good mechanical and chemical properties and exhibit no discoloration.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel copolymer comprising 25-75 mol % of a fluoroolefin such as CTFE or TFE, 10-70 mol % of an alkene such as ethylene or propylene, 3-40 mol % of a hydroxyl-containing allyl ether such as ethylene glycol monolallyl ether and 0-20 mol % of a carboxyl-containing monomer such as vinylacetic acid. This copolymer possesses favorable properties characteristic of fluororesins, is soluble in organic solvents including aromatic solvents low in polarity, such as xylene, and is curable at relatively low temperatures. The copolymer is useful particularly as a paint vehicle. The water repellency of the copolymer in cured state can be enhanced by incorporating a fluorine-containing surface modifier in the copolymer.

Abstract: A hardenable fluorinated copolymer of fluorinated monomers and an acrylamide derivative and paints, paints and varnishes comprising such copolymers, and the process of making such hardenable copolymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the synthesis of new terminal olefins, perfluoro 2,4-dimethyl 3-ethylpentene and perfluoro 2-isopropyl 3,3-dimethylbutene, and to the subsequent fluorination thereof in order to obtain highly branched perfluoroalkanes, capable of providing perfluoroalkyl radicals, which are utilizable as initiators for the polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers.

Abstract: A fluoroelastomer is disclosed which comprises vinylidene fluoride units and hexafluoropropylene units, optionally together with tetrafluoroethylene units, and wherein the amount of tetrafluoroethylene units is 35 to 0% by weight and the weight ratio of vinylidene fluoride units to hexafluoropropylene units is in the range of 80:20 to 40:60. The fluoroelastomer has a relatively low limiting viscosity number and a specific molecular weight distribution. The fluoroelastomer has excellent processability, e.g., excellent roll processability, mold release characteristics and metal-adhesion properties, and is capable of providing a vulcanized rubber having excellent mechanical strength and compression set resistance. The vulcanized rubber is advantageous in the manufacture of O-rings, oil seals, packings, gaskets, diaphragm materials and the like.

Abstract: In the preparation of perfluoropolymers by the interpolymerization of tetrofluoroethylene, perfluro (alkyl vinyl) ether and cyano-cure site monomer, the improvement of incorporating iodo moieties by the reaction of iodo-compounds of the formula RI.sub.n, in which R is a hydrocarbon or halocarbon radical of 1 to 8 carbon atoms and n is 1 or 2.

Abstract: Vinyl ethers having a carboxyl group in a form of salt are stable and is usable as materials for fluorine-containing copolymers. The vinyl ethers can provide sable monomer compositions by mixing with vinyl ethers having a free carboxyl group when the former vinyl ethers are present in an amount of not less than 1% by mole of the latter vinyl ethers. The fluorine-containing copolymer prepared by copolymerizing fluoroolefins with the vinyl ethers are useful as aqueous coatings particularly electro dip coatings.

Abstract: Partially fluorinated polyesters are disclosed having increased biodegradability and water repellency. The incorporation of an ester group into the backbone of the partially fluorinated compound permits modification of the compound's physical properties.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing elastomer capable of giving a vulcanized product with a good permanent set through peroxide vulcanization is produced by homopolymerization or copolymerization of a fluorine-containing olefin having 2 to 8 carbon atoms in the pressence of an iodine and bromine-containing compound represented by the general formula RBrn Im, where R represents a fluorohydrocarbon group, a chorofluorohydrocarbon group, a chlorohydrocarbon group or a hydrocarbon group, and n and m are integers of 1 and 2, and a small amount of 1,1-difluoro-2-bromoethylene.

Abstract: A tetrafluoroethylene base polymer-containing coating composition comprising a dispersion of a tetrafluoroethylene base polymer having a molecular weight of at least 5,000,000 in a liquid medium containing a surfactant, which is particularly useful for coating a fixing heater roller and a cooking utensil.

Abstract: Partially fluorinated polyesters are disclosed having increased biodegradability and water repellancy. The incorporation of an ester group into the backbone of the partially fluorinated compound permits modification of the compound's physical properties.

Abstract: Powders of tetrafluoroethylene copolymer having a non-spherical particle shape, a frictional packing ratio of 20 to 100% and an average particle size of 5 to 500 .mu.m. The powders are useful for powder coatings, particularly roto-moulding, roto-lining and electrostatic coating.

Abstract: An ordinary temperature-curable resin composition comprising (A) a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing fluoroolefin copolymer obtained by polymerizing a monomeric mixture comprising a fluoroolefin as an essential component in the presence of a hydrolyzable silyl group-containing compound, (B) a curing catalyst, and (C) an organic solvent.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparation of a fluoropolymeric film on a carrier, comprising:(a) preparing an aqueous dispersion comprising a fluoropolymer;(b) dipping a carrier belt through the dispersion such that a coating of the dispersion is formed on the carrier belt;(c) passing the coated carrier belt through a metering zone to remove excess dispersion;(d) drying the metered coated carrier to remove the water from the dispersion; and(e) heating the dried coated carrier to a temperature sufficient to consolidate the dispersion, wherein the carrier belt is formed from a material of low thermal mass having chemical and dimensional stability at the consolidation temperature of the dispersion and a work of adhesion between the carrier belt and the dispersion that does not exceed the yield strength of the consolidated fluoropolymeric film.

Abstract: A process for polymerizing or copolymerizing fluorinated monomers, in an aqueous dispersion, by using radicalic-type starters and fluorinated surfactants, characterized in that it is operated in the presence of a perfluoropolyether having neutral end groups and prepared in the form of an aqueous microemulsion, in order to increase the polymerization rate, to increase the process reproducibility and to minimize the consumption of said perfluoropolyether.

Abstract: A fluorine containing polymer containing ester groups in the backbone of the polymer is prepared by the ring opening free radical polymerization of a cyclic ketene acetal with a vinyl monomer component comprising a fluorine containing vinyl monomer. The aforesaid fluorine containing polymer which contains ester groups can be reacted with a material containing functional groups capable of cleaving the carbon oxygen single bonds of the ester groups. The resultant oligomeric material contains functionality as a result of the cleavage which is suitable for reaction with a crosslinking agent to form a cured film.

Abstract: A fluorine containing polymer having a terminal ester group is prepared from the free radical polymerization of an acyclic ketane acetal with a vinyl monomer component including a fluorine containing vinyl monomer.The fluorine containing polymer can be utilized to prepare functional oligomers suitable for many uses including film former and additives for coating applications.

Abstract: Copolymers comprising perfluoroalkyl groups, reproduction layers containing these copolymers and use thereof for waterless offset printing. The novel perfluoroalkyl group-containing copolymers are prepared from at least two different monomers, monomer (a) comprising acryloyl or methacryloyl groups and phenolic OH groups and monomer (b) comprising acryloyloxy, methacryloyloxy or vinyl groups and a perfluoroalkyl group. Monomer component (a) can, for example, be prepared from a hydroxybenzoic acid by esterification with a hydroxyalkyl-acrylate. The novel copolymers are, in particular, used as binders in radiation-sensitive reproduction layers which additionally contain at least one radiation-sensitive compound. Reproduction layers of this kind are used as radiation-sensitive coatings of support materials for printing plates used in waterless offset printing.

Abstract: The fluorine-containing elastomer of the present invention is a novel elastomer comprising vinylidene fluoride units and, hexafluoropropylene units, optionally with tetrafluoroethylene units, and wherein the fluorine content of the elastomer is 63.5 to 71% by weight, the content of fractions having molecular weights of 50,000 or less (M.sub.5) in the elastomer is 5% by weight or less, the content of fractions having molecular weights of 1,000,000 or more (M.sub.100) in the elastomer is 10 to 35% by weight, and the limiting viscosity number (ml/g) of the elastomer is in the range of from 100 to less than 250. The fluorine-containing elaastomer of the present invention is excellent in resistance to heat and chemicals and is not only extremely excellent in compression set resistance properties and mechanical properties but also has a satisfactory workability. Further, by vulcanization of the elastomer, there can be provided excellent shaped articles such as rings, gaskets, seals, diaphragms and the like.

Abstract: A process for polymerizing or copolymerizing fluorinated monomers, in an aqueous dispersion, by the use of radicalic starters and of fluorinated surfactants, characterized in that it is operated in the presence of perfluoropolyether having neutral end groups, being liquid under the polymerization conditions and in the form of an aqueous emulsions, in order to increase the polymerization rate.

Abstract: A solvent soluble fluorine-containing polymer according to the present invention is a copolymer characterized by(i) consisting substantially of(a) fluoroolefin,(b) vinyl ether, and(c) an organosilicon compound having an olefinically unsaturated bond and a hydrohyzable group,(ii) said copolymer comprising, based on the total mole number of said (a)-(c) in the copolymer, 30-70 mol % of (a), 20-60 mol % of (b) and 1-25 mol % of (c) and(iii) said copolymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 3000-200000 as measured by gel permeation chromatography.Further, according to the present invention, a coating composition having excellent weathering resistance and solvent resistance comprising the above-mentioned solvent soluble fluorine-containing polymer and organic solvent is also provided. In addition a coating process of said coating composition is also provided.

Abstract: A process for preparing vinylidene fluoride homopolymers having low molecular weight and its copolymers by carrying out the polymerization in the presence of a radical initiator at a temperature ranging from 20.degree. to 160.degree. C. in a solvent of general formula R--COO--R.sub.1, wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl radical having up to 4 carbon atoms and R.sub.1 is an alkyl radical with up to 5 carbon atoms.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An extrudable fluoroelastomer comprising a gelled fluoroelastomer having units of vinylidene fluoride and units of at least one other fluorine-containing monomer copolymerizable with vinylidene fluoride, said monomer containing from 2-7 carbon atoms, containing no bromine atoms and containing at least as many flourine atoms as carbon atoms, said fluoroelastomer having been simultaneously mixed, sheared and gelled by an organic peroxide gelling agent to a gel content of from about 15-80% by weight, measured in methyl ethyl ketone at 80.degree. C.

Abstract: A solvent soluble fluorine-containing polymer according to the present invention is a copolymer characterized by(i) consisting substantially of(a) fluoroolefin,(b) vinyl ether, and(c) an organosilicon compound having an olefinically unsaturated bond and a hydrohyzable group,(ii) said copolymer comprising, based on the total mole number of said (a)-(c) in the copolymer, 30-70 mol % of (a), 20-60 mol % of (b) and 1-25 mol % of (c) and(iii) said copolymer having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 3000-200000 as measured by gel permeation chromatography.Further, according to the present invention, a coating composition having excellent weathering resistance and solvent resistance comprising the above-memtioned solvent soluble fluorine-containing polymer and organic solvent is also provided. In addition a coating process of said coating composition is also provided.

Abstract: A copolymer comprising repeating units derived from tetrafluoroethylene, vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene in a molar ratio within an area defined on a tetrafluoroethylene, vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene ternary composition diagram by a hexagon with its first vertex A at 34.0% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, 8.5% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 57.5% by weight of hexafluoropropylene; its second vertex B at 26.5% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, 14.5% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 59.0% by weight of hexafluoropropylene; its third vertex C at 31.0% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, 24.0% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 45.0% by weight of hexafluoropropylene; its fourth vertex D at 49.0% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, 26.5% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 24.5% by weight of hexafluoropropylene; its fifth vertex E at 49.0% by weight of tetrafluoroethylene, 11.0% by weight of vinylidene fluoride and 40.

Abstract: A high molecular weight fluoroelastomer is provided comprising 65 to 100 wt % of vinylidene fluoride units and hexafluoropropylene units and 35 to 0 wt % of tetrafluoroethylene units exhibiting low compression set and high elongation properties and showing good processability.

Abstract: A copolymer comprising monomeric units derived from ethylene, tetrafluoroethylene and a fluorine-containing vinyl monomer which provides the copolymer with side chains having at least one carbon atom, wherein the molar ratio of tetrafluoroethylene and ethylene is from 62:38 to 90:10 and the content of the fluorine-containing vinyl monomer is from 0.1 to 10% by mole based on the total number of mole of ethylene and tetrafluoroethylene, which has improved flexibility and better flame retardance.

Abstract: Melt-processible tetrafluoroethylene/perfluoroolefin copolymer granules, and process for their preparation, are disclosed having improved thermal stability, high purity and reduced bubble tendency.

Abstract: A fluorine-containing copolymer comprising structural units of the formula (a):--CH.sub.2 CF.sub.2 -- (a)structural units of the formula (b): ##STR1## wherein n is an integer of 1 to 10 and structural units of the formula (c):--CFX--CFY-- (c)wherein X is --H, --Cl or --F and Y is --F, a lower fluoroalkyl group or a group having the formula: ##STR2## in which m is 0 or an integer of 1 to 3 and a curable composition comprising the fluorine-containing copolymer and a curing agent. The fluorine-containing copolymer is compatible with acrylic resins and is excellent in transparency, and the composition can be employed as a room temperature curing paints material.

Abstract: A fluoroolefin copolymer having an inherent viscosity of from 0.05 to 2.0 dl/g and composed of(I) 10 to 70 mole % of monomeric units derived from a fluoroolefin represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein X is H, Cl, F, CF.sub.3, OCF.sub.3 or OC.sub.3 F.sub.7, (II) 5 to 60 mole % of monomeric units derived from a vinyl carboxylate represented by the general formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aliphatic, aromatic or alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 17 carbon atoms,(III) 5 to 70 mole % of monomeric units derived from a vinyl ether having an alkyl group with 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and(IV) 0 to 30 mole % of monomeric units derived from a hydroxyl-containing vinyl ether represented by the general formula ##STR3## wherein R.sub.2 represents an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Tetrafluoroethylene fine powder resins are described which have surprisingly high extrusion pressures and molecular weights which make them useful in post-paste extruded stretching operations. The resins are made by using a manganese triacetate/selected reducing agent polymerization initiator and controlling its rate of addition.

Abstract: An optical material comprising a copolymer of:(1) ethylene,(2) at least one of tetrafluoroethylene and chlorotrifluoroethylene and(3) olefin having at least one fluoroalkyl group,and a cladding material as used in assembling an optical fiber which comprises the copolymer as defined in above.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a soft, putty-like material for lining a denture base, comprising 100 parts by weight of a monomeric compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group and R.sup.2 represents a residual group formed by removing a hydroxyl group from a fluorine-containing telomer having a molecular weight of less than 1500, 3 to 30 parts by weight of a fluorine-containing copolymer, 3 to 30 parts by weight of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.12 -alkyl acrylate or methacrylate and 0.1 to 3.0 parts by weight of a polymerization-initiator.

Abstract: A polymeric dielectric material comprising a terpolymer which comprises 30 to 90% by mole of VdF, 5 to 70% by mole of TrFE and 0.1 to 20% by mole of HFP, having large permittivity, which is improved by heat treatment.

Abstract: Vinylidene fluoride polymers having a wide range of molecular weights are produced with reduced initiator consumption by using trichlorofluoromethane as a chain transfer agent in the emulsion polymerization process. Vinylidene fluoride homopolymers made by the process have a significantly reduced tendency to generate cavities at high temperatures and a greater resistance to discoloration at high temperatures.

Abstract: Mixture of tetrafluoroethylene/hexafluoropropylene (TFE/HFP) copolymers comprising 5 to 20% by weight of hexafluoropropylene, the specific melt viscosity at 380.degree. C. of which is from 1.times.10.sup.4 to 60.times.10.sup.4 poise,(a) the melt flow ratio being at least 3.5, and(b) the zero strength time (ZST, second) at 380.degree. C. satisfying the following equation:ZST.gtoreq.1/3x.sup.2 +17x+107wherein x is (specific melt viscosity).times.10.sup.-4 having an improved extrudability, particularly an improved extrusion speed. These mixtures of copolymers contain a high specific melt viscosity portion and a low specific melt viscosity portion.

Abstract: Surface treated oriented fluorocarbon films can be laminated to substrates using an adhesive composition of a selected copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene and a selected diisocyanate curing agent in an organic solvent.

Abstract: Tetrafluoroethylene fine powder resins are made by adjusting temperature during polymerization wherein:(a) at the beginning of the polymerization the temperature is between 70.degree.-90.degree. C.,(b) when between 5-30% of the total amount of tetrafluoroethylene has been polymerized, the temperature is raised to between 100.degree.-125.degree. C.,(c) after 20-80% of the total tetrafluoroethylene has been polymerized and after step (b) has been carried out, the temperature is lowered by at least 30.degree. C. from the temperature used in step (b).

Abstract: Making a fluoroelastomer by feeding to an aqueous polymerization medium in a reactor about 25-75% by weight of the total monomers, vinylidene fluoride, at least one other fluorine-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing at least as many fluorine atoms as carbon atoms and copolymerizable with vinylidene fluoride, an inorganic free-radical initiator, a chain transfer agent added in an amount sufficient to maintain a concentration in the aqueous polymerization medium of from about 0.5.times.10.sup.-3 to 5.times.10.sup.-3 moles per 100 grams of total monomers, and from about 0.02-2% by weight, based on the weight of the aqueous medium, of a surfactant which is a compound having the formula:F--CF.sub.2 CF.sub.2).sub.n CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --OSO.sub.3 Mwhere n is an integer of from 2-8 or mixtures thereof and M is an alkali metal cation, hydrogen or ammonium, maintaining the pH of the aqueous polymerization medium within a range of from about 2.

Abstract: A film of a fluorocarbon copolymer of ethylene, and tetrafluoroethylene or chlorotrifluoroethylene, which upon heat shrinking in the longitudinal direction, does not expand in the transverse direction.

Abstract: A fluoropolymer gum of 60 to 85 mol percent vinylidene fluoride, 10 to 40 mol percent of hexafluoropropene and 0.15 to 3 mol percent 1-bromo-2,2-difluoroethylene is provided which can be blended with fluorosilicone gum and vulcanized in presence of free-radical initiators to produce elastomeric vulcanizates with desired balance of chemical solvent or fluid resistance, high temperature stability, and low temperature flexibility, coupled with good physical properties such as high tensile strength and elongation.

Abstract: A multi-component polymer rubber comprising (A) 15 to 60 mole % of an .alpha.,.beta.-unsaturated nitrile, (B) 10 to 75 mole % of a conjugated diene, and (C) 2 to 55 mole % of a fluoroalkyl acrylate or methacrylate or a fluorine-containing .alpha.-olefin, and having a glass transition temperature (T.sub.g) of -50.degree. C. to -20.degree. C., the percentages of the components (A), (B) and (C) being based on the total sum of moles of the components (A), (B) and (C). Said multi-component polymer rubber is excellent in sour gasoline resistance and alcohol-containing gasoline resistance.

Abstract: A continuous process for polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene alone or with selected comonomers to prepare a polymer which employs a perfluoroalkyl ethane sulfonic acid or its salt or a perfluoroalkyl ethane sulfate salt as dispersing agent.

Abstract: Quaterpolymers are described which are composed of the following copolymerized monomer units (in mole %):(a) 55 to 30% of tetrafluoroethylene, (b) 60 to 40% of ethylene, (c) 10 to 1.5% of hexafluoropropylene and (d) 2.5 to 0.05% of a vinyl monomer which has "bulky" side chains and which can be, for example, a perfluorinated olefin, a perfluorinated vinyl ether, a perfluoroalkyl-substituted vinyl compound, a vinyl or allyl ether or an allyl or vinyl ester. The tensile strength and, in particular, the elongation at break at elevated temperatures is improved by the incorporation of both hexafluoropropylene and "bulky" vinyl monomers. The quaterpolymers are suitable for the manufacture of extruded articles, monofilaments and wire-coatings.

Abstract: In the batch process for copolymerizing tetrafluoroethylene and selected comonomers to prepare a copolymer thereof, the improvement which comprises employing a perfluoroalkylethane sulfonic acid or its salts as the dispersing agent.

Abstract: Terpolymer consisting of 12 to 48% by weight TFE units, 7 to 24% by weight HFP units and 30 to 81% by weight VF.sub.2 units, provided that when the content of TFE units is less than 42% by weight, the content of HFP units is less than 15% by weight. Heat-stable films such as polyimide film can be coated with a coating comprising the terpolymer to provide heat-sealable film useful as wire insulation.