Modification of carbon fiber surfaces by direct fluorination

Syntheses and properties of fluorinated carbon materials

“…Considerable effort is being expanded to modify the properties of these fibers [75,76]. An alternative technique to increase the surface polarity of carbon is mild fluorination using elemental fluorine [77]. Several studies on fluorinated carbon fibers were reported [78][79][80][81][82].…”

Surface and bulk properties of severely fluorinated carbon fibres

“…There is increasing evidence that the fluorination of carbon fibres leads to a much-improved interaction between such fibres and fluoropolymers [9][10][11]. Carbon fibres can be fluorinated directly [12] or using low pressure [13,14] and even atmospheric pressure plasmas [15]. Direct fluorination of carbon fibres was investigated by Gupta et al and Tressaud et al [16][17][18].…”

Interfacial behavior between atmospheric-plasma-fluorinated carbon fibers and poly(vinylidene fluoride)

“…Fluorination of carbon fibers could be a method of optimizing interfacial interaction between the fibers and a fluoropolymer matrix [12,13]. The most commonly used methods for the fluorination of carbon fibers are direct fluorination procedures [14][15][16][17][18] and plasma treatments [19][20][21][22][23]. Direct fluorination requires special reaction vessels and involves handling fluorine.…”