Chemistry Letters, Vol.42, No.10, 1230-1232, 2013
Intrinsically Highly Hydrophobic Semi-alicyclic Fluorinated Polyimide Aerogel with Ultra low Dielectric Constants
Polyimide aerogel with an intrinsically hydrophobic nature and a dielectric constant as low as 1.19 at a frequency of 2.75 GHz was synthesized by the polycondensation of an alicyclic dianhydride, an aromatic fluorinated diamine, and an amino-substituted polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) end-capper, followed by a supercritical carbon dioxide drying procedure.