This third edition has been updated and expanded, providing industrial chemists, technologists, environmental scientists, and engineers with an accurate, compact, and practical source of information on fluoropolymers. Highlighting existing and new industrial, military, medical, and consumer goods applications, this edition adds more detailed information on equipment and processing conditions. It explores breakthroughs in understanding property-structure relationships, new polymerization techniques, and the chemistry underlying polymers, such as melt-processable fluoroplastics. It also expands on the important properties of fluoropolymers, including heat and radiation degradation, health effects, and recycling.

Features:

• Revised, updated, and expanded to continue to provide an accurate, compact, and practical source of information on fluoropolymers
• Explores the property-structure relationships, polymerization techniques, and the chemistry underlying polymers
• Fluoropolymers rank high on the specialty polymers group and, due to their unique properties, are naturally part of the solution to the industrial sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century
• Describes the technology of fluoropolymers, including thermoplastic and elastomeric products
• Expands upon the important characteristics of fluoropolymers and their recycling.