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by DivingForGold 1 day ago
Budding armchair polymer chemists: The article specifically states this adhesive works by way of flourine-flourine bonds (found in PFAS and flourocarbon materials).

It does not indicate that it can bond other very low or low polarity polymers, the most common being polypropylene and polyethylene, which there is no known adhesive that will bond strongly to those two polymers, arguably these 2 are much more common than flourocarbons.

The cyanoacrylate "claimed" solutions for polypropylene and polyethylene are very weak.

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I saw this and was immediately excited for use with UHMWPE. Too bad it doesn't work on polyethylenes
It's like soap for fluorine compounds.