Fluorinated Surfaces, Coatings, and Films is a collection of papers from the ACS Symposium Series which focuses on recent research into the development of lower cost fluorinated polymers for use in the commercial polymer industry. Both basic science and more industrially oriented areas of research are represented.

From the Preface: “...The general interest in perfluorinated materials chemistry as a surface energy reducing agent, lubricant, optical cladding, dielectric barrier, or selectively permeable membrane in thin-film form [has] prompted active research and development efforts in two areas of perfluorinated film chemistry: lower cost fluoropolymers with improved film processing and small perfluoroalkyl-containing molecules capable of forming coherent, stable films and coatings...Because the valuable technological properties of fluorinated films and coatings are associated both with perfluoroalkyl chain chemistry and chain orientation, methods and techniques that control or place specific perfluoroalkyl groups at the the interface are a current focus...”

Target Audience: Academic and industrial scientists, engineers, and researchers investigating perfluorinated surfaces and interfaces, as well as upper-level students in this field.

Table of Contents:

Fluorinated Coatings and Films: Motivation and Significance

AFM Study on Lattice Orientation and Tribology of SAMS of Fluorinated Thiols and Disulfides on Au(111): The Influence of Molecular Structure

Aggregation Structure and Surface Properties of Immobilized Fluoroalkylsilanes and Their Mixed Monolayers

Stabilizing Colloids with Fluorocarbon—Hydrocarbon Diblocks: Examples of Vesicles Made From Single-Chain Fluorinated Surfactants

Adsorption and Aggregation Properties of a Series of Semifluorinated, Unsaturated Fatty Acid Esters from Nonaqueous Solution

Wetting Behavior of Thin Films of Polymethacrylates with Oligo (hexafluoropropene oxide) Side Chains

Grand Unified Theory of Fluorocarbon Polymer Mobility on Disk Surfaces

Fluorinated Silicone Coatings with Controlled Surface Chemistry and Microstructure

Wettability of Fluorosilicone Surfaces

Design of Fluorinated Acrylic-Based Polymers as Water Repellant, Intrinsically Photostable Coating Materials for Stone

Fluorinated Polymer Claddings for Optical Fibers

Ultra Water Repellant Thin Films Prepared by dc Plasma Polymerization of Vinylidene Fluoride

Surface Interactions of CF₂ Radicals During Deposition of Amorphous Fluorocarbon Films

Chemical and Contact Mechanical Characterization of Thin Plasma-Deposited Hexafluoropropylene Films

Fluoropolymer Films Deposited by rf Plasma Sputtering of Polytetrafluoroethylene Using Inert Gases

Fluoropolymer Films Deposited by Argon Ion-Beam Sputtering of Polytetrafluoroethylene

Index