Features

• Focus on the melt processible copolymers of tetrafluoroethylene (TFE); homopolymers and copolymers of vinylidene fluoride and polyvinyl fluoride (PVF).
• Detailed descriptions of commercial, non-traditional processing methods, including compression and transfer molding.
• Comprehensive data and references on properties, characteristics, and applications.

Recent decades have seen an explosion of new applications of fluoropolymers in all aspects of human life, particularly in the chemical, electrical, and semiconductor industries. Properties of durability, inertness, low coefficient of friction, and high heat and chemical resistance are unmatched by any other family of plastics.

This is the second of a two volume series of books about fluoroplastics. Fluoroplastics: Non-Melt Processible Fluoroplastics - Volume 1 covers the non-melt processible homopolymers, requiring non-traditional processing techniques. Both books are arranged to allow self-managed reading and learning.

Fluorplastics: Melt Processible Fluoropolymers - Volume 2 is devoted to the melt-processible fluoropolymers, their polymerization and fabrication techniques including injection molding, wire, tube, and film extrusion, rotational molding, blow molding, compression molding, and transfer molding. Both a source of data and a reference, the properties, characteristics, applications, safety, disposal, and recycling of melt-processible fluoropolymers are comprehensively detailed for immediate use by today's practicing engineering and scientists in the plastics industry.

Contents

Part I

1. Fundamentals
2. Fluoropolymers: Properties and Structure
3. Operational Classification of Fluoropolymers
4. Homofluoropolymer Monomers
5. Polymerization and Finishing Melt Processible Fluoropolymers
6. Commercial Grades of Melt Processible Fluoropolymers

Part II

7. Injection Molding
8. Extrusion Chapter
9. Rotational Molding and Lining
10. Other Molding Techniques
11. Fluoropolymer Foams

Part III

12. Chemical Properties of Fluoropolymers
13. Properties of Fluoropolymers
14. Fabrication Techniques for Fluoropolymers
15. Fluoropolymer Applications in the Microelectronics Industry
16. Typical Applications of Fluoropolymers
17. Safety, Disposal, and Recycling of Fluoropolymers

Appendices

• High Temperature Resistance of Fluoropolymers to Automotive Fuels
• Permeation Properties of Perfluoroplastics
• Permeation Properties of Partially Fluorinated Fluoroplastics
• Permeation Properties of Automotive Fuels Through Fluoroplastics
• Permeation of Organic and Inorganic Chemicals Through Fluoroplastics Film
• Mechanical, Thermal, Electrical, Physical, and Miscellaneous Properties of Fluoroplastics
• Modulus Data for Fluoroplastics

Glossary
Index

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