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Adhesion to Fluoropolymers
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Adhesion to Fluoropolymers
Rapra Review Report
Vol. 16, No. 3, Report 183, 2006
By Derek M. Brewis and Ralf H. Dahm
Fluoropolymers can provide a combination of properties including high temperature resistance, excellent resistance to many chemicals and ultraviolet (UV) radiation, fire resistance and low friction. Fluoropolymers are relatively expensive and they are generally used in specialised applications such as linings for chemical plant, spacecraft coatings that are resistant to atomic oxygen, fire-resistant coatings for cables, and of course, non-stick functions. There are more than twenty different fluoropolymers that are commercially available.
The most effective methods to pretreat fully fluorinated polymers were developed in the 1950s. Much work, especially on electrochemical and plasma treatments, has since been carried out but to date these have not proved as effective as the early methods.
Partially fluorinated polymers may be treated like polyolefins, for example, flame, and plasma treatments are very effective. Aqueous and alcoholic solutions of Group I hydroxides are also very effective.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Principles
2.1 Theories of Adhesion
2.2 Wettability
2.3 Diffusion
3 Methods Used to Study Surfaces
3.1 Introduction
3.2 X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
4 Adhesion Without Pretreatment
5 Pretreatments
5.1 Summary
5.2 Wet Chemical Treatments
5.2.1 Treatments with Solvated Electrons and Radical Anion Salts
5.2.2 Treatment with Strong Aqueous Bases
5.2.3 Other Reductive Pretreatments
5.3 Electrochemical and Related Methods
5.3.1 The Indirect Electrochemical Pretreatment of PTFE
5.3.2 Treatment of PTFE with Metal Amalgams
5.3.3 The Direct Electrochemical Pretreatment of PTFE
5.4 Plasma Treatments
5.4.1 Principles and Equipment
5.4.2 Studies of Plasma Treatments
5.4.3 Flame Treatment
5.5 Photochemical Pretreatments
5.6 Miscellaneous Pretreatments
General Discussion
Conclusions
References
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Subject Index
Company Index
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