SILICON OR FLUORINE-CONTAINING POLYMERS

The study of silicon- and fluorine-containing polymers are of interest from both an academic and industrial perspectives as functional materials of high performance. Intensive research work on syntheses and characterizations of these polymers were presented at various meetings and symposiums sponsored by the Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ). In this chapter, the papers presented in the special symposium entitled ''Silicon or Fluorine-containing Polymers'' organized by Prof. Kawakami (1980) at the 39th Annual Fall Meeting of SPSJ in Nagoya are reviewed. The review is focused mainly on syntheses of new silicon- and fluorine-containing polymers.