“…For example, silicone rubber, first demonstrates a decrease in the dielectric constant, and then the increase to the initial values [51]. The same trend was found for permittivity in polyimide [48,49], conductivity and charge dissipation rate in PDMS [54], paper-based insulators [155,161,162], and epoxy-based composites [60,61]. The authors associate this phenomena with low electron polarizability of fluorine atom and an increase of the free volume due to the relatively large volume of fluorine compared with hydrogen (which reduces the number of polarizable groups per unit volume) at the first stage, and then with a growth of the number of broken Si-C, Si-O, C-H, C-OH bonds, aromatic imide groups and polymer chain scission under long time fluorination.…”