Content: PREFACE ; 1. THE STATE OF FLUOROPOLYMERS ; DYLAN J. BODAY ; 2. RECENT ADVANCES IN PARTIALLY FLUORINATED ARYLENE VINYLENE ETHER (FAVE) ; POLYMERS ; SHARON C. KETTWICH, BENJAMIN R. LUND, DENNIS W. SMITH JR., AND SCOTT T. IACONO ; 3. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SEMI-FLUORINATED POLYARYLENE ; COPOLYMERS ; STEPHEN M. BUDY AND DOUGLAS A. LOY ; 4. TOWARDS METAL MEDIATED RADICAL POLYMERIZATION OF VINYLIDENE FLUORIDE ; ALEXANDRU D. ASANDEI, CHRISTOPHER P. SIMPSON, OLUMIDE I. ADEBOLU, AND ; YANHUI CHEN ; 5. WELL-DEFINED FLUORINE-CONTAINING STAR POLYMERS OF VINYL ETHERS: ; PRECISION SYNTHESIS BY BASE-ASSISTING LIVING CATIONIC POLYMERIZATION AND ; THERMORESPONSIVE SOLUBILITY TRANSITIONS ; SHOKYOKU KANAOKA, HIROAKI SHIMOMOTO, DAI FUKAMI, AND SADAHITO AOSHIMA ; 6. SEMI-FLUORINATED POLYMER/POSS THIN FILMS NANOCOMPOSITES: RESPONSE TO ; WATER ; DVORA PERAHIA, DILRU R. RATNAWEERA, UMESH M. SHRESTHA, SCOTT T. IACONO, ; DENNIS W. SMITH, JOSEPH MABRY, AND JAROSLAW MAJEWSKI ; 7. FUNCTIONALIZATION OF FLUOROALKYL POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES ; (F-POSS) ; SEAN M. RAMIREZ, YVONNE J. DIAZ, RAYMOND CAMPOS, TIMOTHY S. HADDAD, AND ; JOSEPH M. MABRY ; 8. THE POWER OF PERFLUORINATED AMPHIPHILIC POLYMERS AT INTERFACES ; F. E. GOLLING, T. SCHUSTER, C. GEIDEL, L. MAMMEN, D. VOLLMER, K. MULLEN, AND ; M. KLAPPER ; 9. FLUORINATED POLYMERS AS OXIDIZERS FOR ENERGETIC COMPOSITES ; CHRISTOPHER A. CROUSE ; 10. RECENT ADVANCES ON NEW FLUORINATED COPOLYMERS BASED ON CARBONATE AND ; OLIGO(ETHYLENE OXIDE) BY RADICAL COPOLYMERIZATION ; ALI ALAAEDDINE, CLAIRE NEGRELL, AND BRUNO AMEDURI ; 11. SUPEROLEOPHOBIC SURFACES ; ARUN K. KOTA AND ANISH TUTEJA ; 12. 2D-NMR STUDIES OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE ; ERIC B. TWUM, XIAOHONG LI, ELIZABETH F. MCCORD, PETER A. FOX, DONALD F. LYONS, ; AND PETER L. RINALDI ; EDITORS>' BIOGRAPHIES ; INDEXES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; SUBJECT INDEX