Producing REACH-Compliant PTFE Additives for Coatings, Inks

PTFE resin is made by the polymerization of TFE (tetrafluoroethylene monomer) to very high molecular weight (MW), in the millions. Low MW PTFE micro-powders are typically made by the degradation of such high MW PTFE resin. Degradation may be affected by thermal or radiation-induced processes, where the backbone carbon-carbon bond is broken to form an active free radical. In such thermal or radiation-induced degradation processes, there is a random distribution of varying chain lengths, and some ...