Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications. The best known brand name of PTFE is Teflon by DuPont Co.PTFE is a fluorocarbon solid as it is a high-molecular-weight compound consisting wholly of carbon and fluorine. PTFE is hydrophobic: neither water nor water-containing substances wet PTFE as fluorocarbons demonstrate mitigated London dispersion forces due to the high electronegativity of fluorine.
