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The fluorine atom, by virtue of its electronegativity, size and bond strength with carbon, can be used to create compounds with remarkable properties. Small molecules containing fluorine have many positive impacts on everyday life of which blood substitutes, pharmaceuticals and surface modifiers are only a few examples. Fluoropolymers, too, while traditionally associated with extreme high-performance applications have found their way into our homes, our clothing and even our language. Much progress has been made in understanding the sometimes confounding properties of fluoropolymers. Computer simulation is now contributing to this with new fluorine force fields and other parameters, bringing realistic prediction within reach of the practicing physical chemist. Fluoropolymers 1: Synthesis and Fluoropolymers 2: Properties attempt to bring together in one place the chemistry, physics and engineering properties of fluoropolymers. The collection was intended to provide balance between breadth and depth, with contributions ranging from the introduction of fluoropolymer structure-property relationships, to reviews of subfields, to more focused topical reports.
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Fluoropolymers 2 Properties TOPICS IN APPLIED CHEMISTRY Series Editor: Alan R. Katritzky, FPS University of Florida Gainesville, Florida Gebran J. Sabongi 3M Company St. Paul, Minnesota Current volumes in the series: ANALYSIS AND DEFORMATION OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS Paints, Plastics, Adhesives, and Inks Jan W. Gooch CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS OF LEUCO DYES Edited by Ramaiah Muthyala FLUOROPOLYMERS 1: Synthesis FLUOROPOLYMERS 2: Properties Edited by Gareth Hougham, Patrick E. Cassidy, Ken Johns, and Theodore Davidson FROM CHEMICAL TOPOLOGY TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY Edited by Alexandru T. Balaban LEAD-BASED PAINT HANDBOOK Jan W. Gooch ORGANIC PHOTOCHROMIC AND THERMOCHROMIC COMPOUNDS Volume 1: Main Photochromic Families Volume 2: Physicochemical Studies, Biological Applications, and Thermochromism Edited by John C. Crano and Robert J. Guglielmetti ORGANOFLUORINE CHEMISTRY Principles and Commercial Applications Edited by R. E. Banks, B. E. Smart, and J. C. Tatlow PHOSPHATE FIBERS Edward J. Griffith RESORCINOL Its Uses and Derivatives Hans Dressler A Continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. Fluoropolymers 2 Properties Edited by Gareth Hougham IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York Patrick E. Cassidy Southwest Texas State University San Marcos, Texas Ken Johns Chemical and Polymer Windlesham, Surrey, England Theodore Davidson Princeton, New Jersey Kluwer Academic Publishers NEW YORK , BOSTON , DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW eBook ISBN 0-306-46919-7 Print ISBN 0-306-46061-0 ©2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow Print ©1999 Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York All rights reserved No part of this eBook may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without written consent from the Publisher Created in the United States of America Visit Kluwer Online at: and Kluwer's eBookstore at: http://www.kluweronline.com http://www.ebooks.kluweronline.com Contributors Shinji Ando, Science and Core Technology Group, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. Musashino-shi, Tokyo 180, Japan. Present address: Department of Polymer Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan Karol Argasinski, Ausimont USA, Thorofare, New Jersey 08086 S. V. Babu, Department of Chemical Engineerin