Polymers based on fluoro(meth)acrylates and a fluorinated polymide

The radical copolymerization of a series of fluoro(meth)acrylates and methy l methacrylate carried our in the presence of a polyimide yielded new polym eric systems which surpass the corresponding homopoly(meth)acrylates prepar ed under analogous conditions with respect to their molecular mass characte ristics, It was shown that the solubility and the thermal and mechanical pr operties of the resulting copolymers are appreciably different from poly(me th)acrylates even when the amount of polyimide introduced into the polymeri zation system is small.