Materials with low dielectric constant and loss and good thermal properties prepared by introducing perfluorononenyl pendant groups onto poly(ether ether ketone)

at 10 kHz. Therefore, PEEK/PTFE-5 had much higher dielectric loss than that of PEEK-PFN-5 with the same fluorine content. PEEK-PFN-5 also showed excellent thermal stability, with a 5 wt%-loss temperature of 436 °C. PEEK-PFN-5 showed a slight increase in hydrophobicity, with a water droplet contact angle of 89.7° compared with that of PEEK/PTFE-5 (86.4°) containing the same fluorine content as PEEK-PFN-5. Morphologies and fluoride distribution on the membrane surfaces were characterized by field emission SEM equipped with EDX. These results indicated that PEEK-PFN-5 possessed a more uniform distribution of fluorine on the membrane top surface than PEEK-PTFE-5.