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PROFESSIONAL APPLICATIONS
Smart labels and packaging, police border controls, medical imaging, catheters
and surgical guides, road surfacing, organic photovoltaics, etc.
With its Piezotech® range, Arkema designs, produces and markets unique electroactive fluoropolymers. But what exactly are they, and what opportunities do their amazing properties open up? From materials science to real-world applications, we lead you through five steps to understand the potential
of this promising field of research.
FLUORINATED MONOMERS
Small reactive polar molecules, the basic unit of polymers.
FROM
THE FLUORINE ATOM...
Designed and manufactured by Arkema
Designed and manufactured by partners of Arkema
...TO NEW INVENTIONS
RETAIL APPLICATIONS
Smartphone screens, car dashboards and seats, virtual reality gloves, smart textiles and footwear, health tracking bracelets, video game controls, flexible screens and OLED* televisions, smart pill dispensers.
GLOSSARY SEE P.20 Haptic and microfluidic actuators,
pressure and thermal sensors, wearables, etc. Go to the back of the magazine for explanations.
*Organic Light-Emitting Diode
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