RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Influence of the Composition and Imidization Route on the Chain Packing and Gas Separation Properties of Fluorinated Copolyimides A1 Tena, Alberto A1 Shishatskiy, Sergey A1 Meis, David A1 Wind, Jan A1 Filiz, Volkan A1 Abetz, Volker AB A strong effect of the chemical composition and imidization method on physical and especially on gas transport properties of polyimides was demonstrated. Two fluorinated diamines 6FpDA and bisAPAF were polymerized in different ratios, employing the fluorinated dianhydride 6FDA to get polyimides with nine different compositions. For all synthesized materials three imidization methods were used: azeotropic, thermal, and chemical. The 6FDA-6FpDA homopolymers showed significant differences in the gas transport properties, indicating the influence of the imidization route on the final properties of the polyimides. For polyimides containing bisAPAF, the chemical composition played an important role due to the exchange of the hydroxyl groups by acetate groups leading to different interchain interactions. The gas transport was mainly controlled by the chain packing for thermally and azeotropically imidized polymers with bisAPAF contents lower than 30 mol %. For bisAPAF contents above 50 mol % the gas transport was controlled by the intermolecular interactions, e.g., hydrogen bonds. PB ACS Publications SN 0024-9297 YR 2017 FD 2017 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80072 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80072 LA spa NO Macromolecules 2017, 50, 15, 5839–5849 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 25-nov-2025