Solution self-assembly of fluorinated polymers, an overview

Abstract

Fluoropolymers constitute an attractive family of polymeric materials with remarkable properties such as high resistance to chemicals, UV and heat, ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity for semi-crystalline polymers, to name a few....

A robust platform to construct molecular patchy particles with a pentiptycene skeleton toward controlled mesoscale structures

“…Moreover, fluorocarbon chains were selected here due to the omniphobic nature 61–63 and intriguing interfacial properties 64 ( e.g. , anti-fouling coating, non-wetting, etc.…”

Depolymerizable semi-fluorinated polymers for sustainable functional materials

“…14 The hydrophobicity of fluorinated polymers and their incompatibility with non-fluorinated polymers have also attracted significant interests in the field of self-assembly. 15 The high-volume production and use of fluorinated polymers need to be backed up by effective recycling to achieve sustainable utilization of natural resources and to reduce environmental impact. At present, most post-consumer fluorinated and semi-fluorinated polymer waste ends up in landfills.…”

“…14 The hydrophobicity of fluorinated polymers and their incompatibility with non-fluorinated polymers have also attracted significant interests in the field of self-assembly. 15…”

Triphenylene containing blue-light emitting semi-fluorinated aryl ether polymers with excellent thermal and photostability

“…Fluorine imparts enhanced properties to polymeric materials targeted for high performance or extreme conditions such as those needed for protective coatings, optoelectronic thin films, biomedical devices, aerospace materials, gas-separation membranes, and fuel cell applications. [1][2][3] The growing organic electronics industry has long sought extremely durable, lightweight, and cheap optoelectronic devices (e.g., OLEDs, organic photovoltaics (OPVs), and organic field-effect transistors (OFETs)) with high luminance at low voltage, and high color purity. 4,5 Translating the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) performance of fragile organometallics (such as Alq3 by Kodak in 1987 6 ) into robust polymers with real macromolecular properties continues to be a ''holy grail'' for organic electronics.…”