Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) Fibers: A Solution for Multiple High Performance Requirements in Fiber Applications

摘要

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is a high performance engineering polymer which was introduced in the 1960s when Arkema Inc. began manufacturing the trademarked Kynar® PVDF family of materials. Today, there are more than forty different PVDF grades available to the market for a wide range of manufacturing processes including extrusion, injection molding, rotational molding, coatings, and solution casting. The ease of processing has led to applications which include corrosion resistant liners for tanks and pipes, protective films for photovoltaic solar panels, barrier films for bioprocess and pharmaceutical disposable systems, high purity components for semiconductor water and chemical processing, flame and smoke resistant wire and cable jacketing for plenum rated products, protective paints for architectural coatings, membranes for filtration of water and food, foams for light weight applications, and most recently fibers for woven and nonwoven applications.