Fluorinated Coatings and Finishes Handbook

Fluorinated Coatings and Finishes Handbook: The Definitive User's Guide, Second Edition, addresses important, frequently posed questions by end-user design engineers, coaters, and coatings suppliers on fluorinated coatings and finishes, thus enabling them to achieve superior product qualities and shorter product and process development times. The book provides broad coverage of these fluorinated polymer coatings, including the best known PTFE, polytetrafluoroethylene, first trademarked as Teflon® and ePTFE (GoreTex®). Their inherent qualities of low surface tension, non-stick, low friction, high melting point, and chemical inertness make fluoropolymer coatings widely desirable across thousands of industrial and consumer applications, but these properties also make it difficult to convert fluoropolymers to coatings that have sufficient adhesion to the substrate to be protected. In this book, readers learn how fluoropolymer coatings are used and made, about their pigments and fillers, binders, dispersion processes, additives, and solvents. The book includes substrate preparation, coating properties, baking and curing processes, performance tests, applications, and health and safety.
- Provides a practical handbook that covers the theory and practice of fluorinated coatings, including the structure and properties of binders and how to get a non-stick coating to stick to the substrate
- Covers liquid and power fluorocoatings, their applications methods, curing and baking processes, and their commercial end uses
- Presents detailed discussions of testing methods related to fluorocoatings, common coating defects, how they form, how to eliminate them, and the health and safety aspects of using and applying fluorocoatings
- Includes substrate preparation, coating properties, baking and curing processes, performance tests, applications, and health and safety

Larry McKeen has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin and worked for DuPont Fluoroproducts from 1978-2014. As a Senior Research Associate (Chemist), he was responsible for new product development including application technology and product optimization for particular end-uses, and product testing. He retired from DuPont at the end of 2014 and is currently a consultant.

1. Fundamentals2. Producing Polymers and Fluoropolymer Finishing3. Introductory Fluoropolymer Coating Formulation4. Binders5. Pigments, Fillers, Extenders, Nanoparticles6. Solvents7. Additives8. Substrate and Substrate Preparation9. Liquid Formulations10. Application of Liquid Coatings11. Powder Coating Fluoropolymers12. Fluoropolymer Coating Processing Technology13. Measurement of Coating Performance14. Tribology of Coatings15. Permeation of Fluoropolymer Coatings16. Recognizing, Understanding, and Dealing with Coating Defects17. Commercial Applications and Uses18. Health and Safety