Journal of Fluorine Chemistry

An approach to fluorinated surface coatings via photoinitiated cationic cross-linking of mixed epoxy and fluoroepoxy systems

S Matuszczak, WJ Feast

Index: Matuszczak, Stephen; Feast, W. James Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, 2000 , vol. 102, # 1-2 p. 269 - 277

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Citation Number: 35

Abstract

The synthesis and characterisation of four polyfluorinated monoepoxides is described. These fluoroepoxy monomers were cationically polymerised either neat or as mixtures with diglycidylether of bisphenol-A using the initiator system (CH3CH2) 3Al/H2O (2/1) or the photoinitiator Ph2I+, PF6−. Contact angle measurements indicated that, in favourable cases, the fluorinated epoxide monomer surface segregated at low loadings to give significant ...