Teflon®
DuPont’s Teflon® was originally a tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer. Nowadays the name, followed by a variety of numbers and initials, is applied to several different polymers, some of which are not based on TFE at all.
If a polymer is just named as Teflon you may assume it to be a homopolymer of TFE. For other types see the list below.
Note that "fluorinated ethylene-propylene" should be assumed to be a (non-fluorinated) BCP of TFE and hexafluoropropylene.
| NAME |
STRUCTURE |
| Teflon (no suffix) |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon (+ a suffix not in this list) |
Homopolymer + Copolymer general, TFE |
| Teflon ETFE |
BCP, ethylene + TFE |
| Teflon FEP (with or without suffix) |
BCP, TFE + hexafluoropropylene |
| Teflon K |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon P |
HP/CP, perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) |
| Teflon PFA |
BCP, TFE + perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) |
| Teflon PTFE |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon T 5 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon T 6 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon T 8 A |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon T 30 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon TE 9061 |
BCP, TFE + hexafluoropropylene |
| Teflon TFE |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 5 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 6 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 6 C |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 6 C-J |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 6 J |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 7 A |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 7 J |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 30 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 30 B |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 30 J |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 30 N |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 100 |
BCP, TFE + hexafluoropropylene |
| Teflon 110 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 120 |
BCP, TFE + hexafluoropropylene |
| Teflon 327 |
Homopolymer, TFE |
| Teflon 850 |
BCP, TFE + hexafluoropropylene |
| Teflon 851-204 |
Homopolymer, TFE |