Aclon - wettable, bondable PTFE whisker - Acton Technologies AN ISO 9001 CERTIFIED COMPANY AN ISO 14001 CERTIFIED COMPANY Lending The Properties Of PTFE... Aclon is the first... and only wettable, bondable PTFE whisker available to industry. Added to other polymers in loading amounts as little as 5%, it imparts some of the properties, especially lubricity... of PTFE. For more information, contact Acton Technologies. 50 x magnification 300 x magnification 1500 x magnification Quote/Purchase Email Inquiry Patent Excerpt HOME | PRODUCTS | THE COMPANY | QUOTE / PURCHASE | EMAIL Acton Technologies, Inc., 2000-2008. All rights reserved. ...

modification of fluoropolymers and has been successfully etching all fluoropolymers including PTFE (Dyneon PTFE, Daikin-Polyflon , and Dupont PTFE), PVDF (Kynar FEP, PFA, PCTFE.... High-performance fluoropolymer films with enhanced physical properties. A wettable, bondable PTFE whisker used in composites to impart some fluoropolymer characteristics... etchants for semi-conductor manufacturing. Kynar PVDF Elastomer and Elastomeric Foam Products. Daikin-Polyflon , Dyneon PTFE, Dupont PTFE, Kynar and Halar are registered trademarks...

Fibers" Kevin G. Nelson Acton Technologies, Inc. Pittston, PA 18640 ACLON (HYDROPHILIC PTFE WHISKER) "Composites of etched and unetched floc in polyurethane were made as follows: Two... hardness of the composite containing unetched PTFE floc was 20 as compared to 60 for the composite with the etched PTFE. The increase in hardness illustrates the fact that the bond...

PROCESSING OF PTFE THE "NEW" CHEMISTRIES ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ETCHING THE SHELF LIFE OF ETCHED SURFACES INTRODUCTION In order to achieve some perspective, any discussion of the treatment..., and therefore bondable, arose almost as soon as their extremely low coefficient of friction was realized. The most common fluoropolymer is polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and its most... fluoropolymers like FEP, PFA, PVDF and ETFE, along with the newest generation of modified PTFEs, have been introduced to meet the needs of an ever-increasing number of applications. Since...

, improves wettability and flow characteristics of PTFE, FEP, CTFE, ETFE, PVDF, PFA, and other fluoropolymers. FluoroEtch Safety Solvent, an activated form of sodium in solution, reacts... that FluoroEtch turns clear on the surface of the polymer, the weaker the etchant. Very weak FluoroEtch will appear lighter green and will be somewhat less viscous. White PTFE test... strips provide a good method to determine the level of activity in a FluoroEtch bath. It is useful to establish a standard by etching a white PTFE test strip (approximately 1mm x...