Patent 7173098 was granted and assigned to Daikin Industries, Ltd. on February, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention has for its object to provide a method of producing fluoropolymers with high productivity under comparatively low temperature and low pressure conditions which are conducive to reduced cost of commercial-scale production equipment. The present invention is directed to a method of producing a fluoropolymer which comprises polymerizing a radical polymerizable monomer in a defined reaction-field, said radical polymerizable monomer comprising a fluorine-containing ethylenic monomer and said defined reaction-field being in supercriticality-expression state with a monomer density [ρm]-monomer critical density [ρ0] ratio of [ρm/ρ0] not less than 1.1.