Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing semiconductor devices, including a step wherein a semiconductor device exchanges heat with a heat transfer fluid. The heat transfer fluid comprises one or more chemical compounds having the general formula: Ph(OR f ) x (I) wherein Ph is an aromatic ring linked to one or more ether groups -OR f where each -R f : - is a monovalent fluorinated alkyl group comprising at least one C-F bond, - has a carbon chain, preferably a C 1 -C 10 carbon chain, which can be linear or can comprise branches and/or cycles, and, optionally, can comprise in chain heteroatoms selected from O, N or S, and wherein, when X>1, the -R f groups on the same molecule can be equal to or different from each other.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to modified fluorinated poly(arylene ether ketone)s that can be crosslinked to produce high performance thermosets useful for semiconductor application with low dielectric constant. The present invention also relates to a method for manufacturing said modified fluorinated poly (arylene ether ketone)s prepared via polycondensation of a fluorinated poly (arylene ether ketone) with a fluorostyrene.
Abstract:
The present invention provides modified polyaryl ether ketones (PAEK)s having fluorinated moieties incorporated therein. The present invention also relates to a method for covalently attaching fluorinated moieties onto the surface of PAEK, said method comprising reducing the ketone groups of the PAEK to hydroxyl groups to obtain a modified PAEK and then reacting the hydroxyl groups with a compound bearing a fluorinated moiety.
Abstract:
The present invention pertains to a piezoelectric fluoropolymer, to a process for manufacturing said fluoropolymer and to uses of said fluoropolymer in electric and/or electronic applications.
Abstract:
The present invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a melt-processible fluoropolymer, to the melt-processible fluoropolymer obtainable by said process and to uses of said melt-processible fluoropolymer in various applications.
Abstract:
The invention provides novel latexes of particles of vinylidene fluoride/trifluoroethylene copolymers possessing a more ordered ferroelectric crystalline phase, and hence improved ferro-, pyro-, and piezo-electric properties, and a method for manufacturing the same by emulsion polymerization in the presence of certain cyclic fluorosurfactants.
Abstract:
The invention pertains to a process for manufacturing a dispersion of a vinylidene fluoride (VDF) thermoplastic polymer [polymer (F)], said process comprising polymerizing VDF in an aqueous phase comprising at least one bisfluorocarbonphosphinic surfactant of formula R F 1 R F 2 P(0)O - X a + wherein R F 1 and R F 2 , equal to or different from each other, is independently a fluorinated or perfluorinated C 1 -C 20 group, and X a is H, a alkali metal or a NR H 4 group, with R H being H or a C 1 -C 6 hydrocarbon group [surfactant (P)], and to a vinylidene fluoride thermoplastic polymer dispersion therefrom.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to protective coatings for medical devices, equipment and PPE that are resistant to sanification and sterilization technologies, imparting durability and promoting safe use and re-use of the same.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for exchanging heat with an object said method comprising using a heat transfer fluid wherein said heat transfer fluid comprises one or more chemical compounds having the general formula: Rf-O-CF2-O-CX=CYZ (I) wherein Rf can be any C2-C6 linear, branched or C5C6 cyclic saturated carbon chain which can be partially or fully fluorinated, and can comprise 0-5 Oxygen atoms which, when present, are all engaged in ether bonds, and wherein X, Y and Z can be independently selected from halogens or hydrogen, with the proviso that at least one of X, Y or Z is a halogen.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a fluoropolymer in a liquid reaction medium, comprising the following steps: - provide a reactor containing a liquid reaction medium comprising water, - introduce in said reactor ethylene monomers and fluorinated monomers, said fluorinated monomers being selected from tetrafluoroethylene (TFE), chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE) or mixtures thereof, - pressurize the reactor, - initiate polymerization feeding into said reactor a redox initiator comprising an oxidising agent and a reducing agent, wherein said reducing agent in said redox couple initiator is free from sulphur atoms having an oxidation number of 4 or below, wherein the reaction medium is free of fluorinated surfactants.