Abstract
One of the leading challenges in the development of new, multifunctional polymer products is process feasibility. Many of the standard coating, molding, and extrusion technologies are riddled with multivariable problems that dictate part quality, scalability, and process design. These challenges are exasperated when implementing fluorinated polymers due, in part, to their high melt viscosity, corrosive decomposition products, and surface energy limitations. Solving these problems promises products with high thermal stability, tunable interface properties, and corrosion resistance. While there have been many breakthroughs over the years in process design and formulation, fluoropolymer processing has entered an age of new processing solutions thanks to additive manufacturing. However, many of the age-old processing challenges have created resistance in implementing AM methods to their full potential. This chapter serves to revisit traditional processing strategies in hopes of bringing that intuition to fluoropolymer additive manufacturing.
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