Abstract A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material produced by forming a mixture of an adequate amount of a liquid lubricant and polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder having an average molecular weight of at least 6,000,000, an amorphous index larger than 0.1 and a number average primary particle size of 0.1 to 0.8 microns, and a clear endothermic peak at a temperature of 347±3°C and an another endothermic peak or shoulder at a temperature between 330 °C and the temperature of said clear endothermic peak on a crystalline melting chart recorded by a differential scanning calorimeter, removing the lubricant to obtain an unsintered PTFE material and expanding the unsintered polytetrafluoroethylene material at least monoaxially at a temperature higher than the melting point of polytetrafluoroethylene.
A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material produced by forming a mixture of an adequate amount of a liquid lubricant and polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder having an average molecular weight of at least 6,000,000, an amorphous index larger than 0.1 and a number average primary particle size of 0.1 to 0.8 microns, and a clear endothermic peak at a temperature of 347±3°C and an another endothermic peak or shoulder at a temperature between 330°C and'the temperature of said clear endothermic peak on a crystalline melting chart recorded by a differential scanning calorimeter, removing the lubricant to obtain an unsintered PTFE material and expanding the unsintered polytetrafluoroethylene material at least monoaxially at a temperature higher than the melting point of PTFE.
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material produced by forming a mixture of an adequate amount of a liquid lubricant and polytetrafluoroethylene fine powder having an average molecular weight of at least 6,000,000, an amorphous index larger than 0.1 and a number average primary particle size of 0.1 to 0.8 microns, and a clear endothermic peak at a temperature of 347±3°C and an another endothermic peak or shoulder at a temperature between 330°C and'the temperature of said clear endothermic peak on a crystalline melting chart recorded by a differential scanning calorimeter, removing the lubricant to obtain an unsintered PTFE material and expanding the unsintered polytetrafluoroethylene material at least monoaxially at a temperature higher than the melting point of PTFE.
Claim 3
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material according to claim 1, wherein the molecular weight of the fine powder is at least 6,500,000.
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material according to claim 1, wherein the amorphous index of the fine powder is larger than 0.11.
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material according to claim 1, wherein the endothermic ratio as defined hereinbefore of the fine powder is larger than 0.30.
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material according to claim 1, wherein the critical thickness of devirification of the film formed from the fine powder is 20 to 45 microns.
Claim 7
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A porous polytetrafluoroethylene material according to claim 1, wherein the fine powder is prepared by emulsion polymerizing tetrafluoroethylene in an aqueous medium in the presence of an anionic surfactant, an'emulsion stabilizer which is liquid under the polymerization conditions and a water-soluble polymerization initiator, at a temperature of lower than 20°C under a pressure of 5 to 20 Kg/c m2.
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