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Special Issue "Advances in Fluoropolymers"

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2023 | Viewed by 988

Special Issue Editors

Department of Chemistry & Chemistry Research Center, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Interests: fluoropolymers; composites; polymers; surfaces & interfaces; coatings; conjugated polymers; monomer synthesis
Department of Chemistry & Chemistry Research Center, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Interests: fluoropolymers; composites; polymers; surfaces & interfaces; coatings; conjugated polymers; monomer synthesis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Fluoropolymers are enabling materials that find applications in critical technologies from energy conversion to microelectronics and photonics, extreme environment applications, and biomaterials.

Traditional fluoropolymer technology is nearly 70 years old, and it still maintains a growth rate above the US GNP. In addition to perfluoropolymers, partially fluorinated polymers will continue to impact a wide range of technologies as better control of their unique optical, electronic, processing, extreme environment stability, and surface properties is achieved.

This Special Issue on “Advances in Fluoropolymers” will include invited contributions to the biennial Fluoropolymer 2023 Workshop sponsored by the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry.

Prof. Dr. Scott T. Iacono
Dr. Abby R. Jennings
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • fluoropolymers
  • monomer synthesis
  • composites
  • surfaces & interfaces
  • coatings
  • aerospace materials

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Influencing the Crystalline Domains of Poly(vinylidenedifluoride) Composites Using Fluorinated Silica Nanoparticles as Drop-In Modifiers
Molecules 2022, 27(23), 8398; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27238398 - 01 Dec 2022
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Improvements to fluoropolymer processing techniques by way of utilizing nanoparticles as drop-in processing aids have pronounced effects on bulk composite properties. In this work, we prepared fluoroalkyl-silanized silica nanoparticles (F-SiNPs, ca. 200 nm) that were solvent-blended with polyvinylenedifluoride (PVDF) in order to prepare [...] Read more.
Improvements to fluoropolymer processing techniques by way of utilizing nanoparticles as drop-in processing aids have pronounced effects on bulk composite properties. In this work, we prepared fluoroalkyl-silanized silica nanoparticles (F-SiNPs, ca. 200 nm) that were solvent-blended with polyvinylenedifluoride (PVDF) in order to prepare composites with varying weight fractions. We demonstrated that the ability to functionalize SiNPs with long fluoroalkylchains that induced co-crystallization with the PVDF matrix, resulting in uniform particle dispersion and improved interlaminate adhesion. This was quantitatively investigated using calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis, which showed a decrease in the bulk crystallinity of the virgin PVDF from 37% to 10% with minimal 10 wt % F-SiNP loading, rendering a nearly amorphous PVDF. Additional discussions in this work include the effects of various bare and fluoroalkyl-functionalized SiNP loadings on the amorphous and crystalline domains of the PVDF matrix, as well as thermal decomposition. Full article
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