I know many of you, everybody in fact 
does not care much about PTFE or Teflon or it's benefits it can have in say, car wax or quick detailer or whatever.
I'm doing some searching on waterborne dispersions at work (currently we use PTFE in our coatings to give it lubricity).
Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to melt Teflon or any other lubricant for it to work. Infact, if you chose to oxidize the teflon, it would essentially burn and lose all of it's lubricant properties. So that beg's the question, why would anyone want baked on teflon on their car. The answer is, they wouldn't. Teflon would have to exist in it's molecular stable state, remaining on the car and kept there. After that, it's the polymers job (or whatever binder is in the system) to keep it there. The fact that Teflon has such a high temperature resistance is the very reason why it can be used in this situation.
There are even more lubricants that DuPont carries (the makers of Teflon) that one up PTFE. Krytox, for example, not only provide librication, but also prevents rust (100 hours salt spray on steel panels). This is amazing in that a simple lubricant, just applied to the surface of a metal can keep it from rusting and wearing.
Reverting back to PTFE, it's already applied as an additive to many applications. For instance, it's the dry lubricant for many of the nuts and bolts in your car. PTFE resins are used as lubricants for belts and gears.
From a wax standpoint, PTFE not only adds lubricity but also adds water repellency (which we all like) and temperature stability.
But all in all, there is lubricants in everything we use on our cars, whether it be oil based or resin based or silicone based. Canauba is a lubricant, isn't it? It burns at a way lower temperature than PTFE would ever.
Now I have no idea how effective Teflon is as an additive to any wax or QD or whatever. But I do know that not only is it an important component already, but it has the ability to provide lubrication and durability, just by the properties it has.
Would you not feel better, if the molecular dirt on your wash mitt ran into a few molecules of PTFE before running into your paint?
Just something to think about next time you knock it as an ingredient to any of the many chemicals we use on our cars.
does not care much about PTFE or Teflon or it's benefits it can have in say, car wax or quick detailer or whatever.I'm doing some searching on waterborne dispersions at work (currently we use PTFE in our coatings to give it lubricity).
Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to melt Teflon or any other lubricant for it to work. Infact, if you chose to oxidize the teflon, it would essentially burn and lose all of it's lubricant properties. So that beg's the question, why would anyone want baked on teflon on their car. The answer is, they wouldn't. Teflon would have to exist in it's molecular stable state, remaining on the car and kept there. After that, it's the polymers job (or whatever binder is in the system) to keep it there. The fact that Teflon has such a high temperature resistance is the very reason why it can be used in this situation.
There are even more lubricants that DuPont carries (the makers of Teflon) that one up PTFE. Krytox, for example, not only provide librication, but also prevents rust (100 hours salt spray on steel panels). This is amazing in that a simple lubricant, just applied to the surface of a metal can keep it from rusting and wearing.
Reverting back to PTFE, it's already applied as an additive to many applications. For instance, it's the dry lubricant for many of the nuts and bolts in your car. PTFE resins are used as lubricants for belts and gears.
From a wax standpoint, PTFE not only adds lubricity but also adds water repellency (which we all like) and temperature stability.
But all in all, there is lubricants in everything we use on our cars, whether it be oil based or resin based or silicone based. Canauba is a lubricant, isn't it? It burns at a way lower temperature than PTFE would ever.
Now I have no idea how effective Teflon is as an additive to any wax or QD or whatever. But I do know that not only is it an important component already, but it has the ability to provide lubrication and durability, just by the properties it has.
Would you not feel better, if the molecular dirt on your wash mitt ran into a few molecules of PTFE before running into your paint?
Just something to think about next time you knock it as an ingredient to any of the many chemicals we use on our cars.
