Synthesis of polyvinylidene fluoride and its copolymers

The development of fluorinated polymers is considered to have begun in the late 1930s when poly(chlorotrifluoroethylene) (PCTFE) was successfully prepared and high molecular weight poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) was discovered (Ameduri [1], Hansen [2], Ameduri and Boutevin [3], Hougham et al. [4], Améduri et al. [5], Aḿduri et al. [6]).