ABSTRACT
The surface layer plays an important role in the practical application of polymeric materials. The surface properties of polymers have recently received great attention because of its generic importance in diverse technological areas such as adhesion, biomedical materials, electronic materials, and coatings. Many desirable properties, such as compatibility, wettability, adhesiveness, permeability, solidstate morphology, and so forth can be influenced by polymer surface structure. Polymer surface properties are closely related to the functionality of materials (e.g., adhesion, fracture, environmental compatibility, biocompatibility, and electric properties); for example, lowering the surface tension of a film is desirable for formulating nonwettable surfaces. One of the most popular and successful strategies for lowering the surface tension of a film is the incorporation of fluorine into the polymer molecule comprising the coating. The fluorine can be incorporated into the main polymer chain [1-13]. Much research has been done to elucidate the influence of surface structure on their surface behavior for various polymeric systems. The polymeric systems, which are intensively investigated and substantially used in industry, can be classified into four groups as functional polymers, polymer blends, block copolymers, and graft copolymers.
