Microstructural properties and dielectric relaxations of partially fluorinated copolymers

Jorge Arturo Soto Puente (1, 2) , Laurent Delbreilh (1) , Jens Dittmer (3) , Valérie Briand (2) , Sébastien Vernay (2) , Eric Dargent (1)

1 GPM - Groupe de physique des matériaux
2 Zodiac Aerosafety Systems (France)
3 IMMM - Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans

The aim of this work is to correlate the presence of the pending -CF3 group on the microstructure and the relaxation behavior of the amorphous phase in a fluorinated terpolymer. On this basis, the properties of EFEP (ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene-hexafluoropropylene) are compared to those of ETFE (ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene). For both polymers, the lower hydrophobic character compared to PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) is related to the modification of the fluorine sheet-like orientation. Besides, it is noticed that the–CF3 groups create defects in the crystalline phase and thus, decrease the melting temperature and degree of crystallinity in EFEP compared to ETFE. Moreover, the steepness of the main relaxation time evolution with temperature and associated to the amorphous phase is clearly modified. Once again the steric hindrance of –CF3 groups decreases the packing efficiency in EFEP compared to the fluorinated polymers without pending groups.

Mots clés: Fluorinated polymer; Semi-crystalline; Relaxation processes

Domaines: Science des matériaux [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]

Jorge Arturo Soto Puente, Laurent Delbreilh, Jens Dittmer, Valérie Briand, Sébastien Vernay, et al.. Microstructural properties and dielectric relaxations of partially fluorinated copolymers. Polymer, 2018, 157, pp.50-58. ⟨10.1016/j.polymer.2018.10.020⟩. ⟨hal-02061723⟩