A series of novel fluorinated polyimides (PIs) were prepared from 4-(3,4-difluorophenyl)-2,6-bis(4-aminophenyl)pyridine (FPAP) and commercial aromatic dianhydrides via conventional two-step thermal imidization technique. The structure of the monomer was confirmed by FT-IR, NMR, and mass spectrometry. All of the obtained PIs were studied with FT-IR, TGA, DSC, WAXD and contact angles analysis. These results showed that polymer materials presented excellent thermal properties with the glass transition temperature (T g ) in the range of 336-434 ℃, as well as T 5% , and T 10% decomposition temperature ranges of 543-600 ℃ and 562-622 ℃ in a nitrogen atmosphere, respectively. Moreover, they presented excellent mechanical properties with tensile strengths of 68-91 MPa, elongation at break of 5.6%-10.2%, and young's modulus of 1.8-2.4 GPa. Furthermore, they showed outstanding hydrophobicity with the contact angle in the range of 90.5°-96.6°, and the results of WAXD indicated all of the polymers presented amorphous structure.