Material package for fabrication of fusing components

The method of fusing a thermoplastic resin toner image to a substrate comprising forming a film of a polymeric release agent on the surface of a heated fuser member comprising a supporting substrate having an outer layer of a volume grafted elastomer which is a substantially uniform integral interpenetrating network of a hybrid composition of a fluoroelastomer and a polyorganosiloxane, said volume graft having been formed by dehydrofluorination of said fluoroelastomer by a nucleophilic dehydrofluorinating agent, followed by addition polymerization by the addition of an alkene or alkyne functionally terminated polyorganosiloxane, and a polymerization initiator and contacting the toner image on said substrate with the heated fuser member for a period of time sufficient to soften the toner, and allowing the toner to cool.

The method of making a fuser member comprising;

• forming a solvent solution of a fluoroelastomer compound, dehydrofluorinating agent, a polymerization initiator and an alkene or alkyne functionally terminated polyorganosiloxane, adding a nucleophilic curing agent for said fluoroelastomer to said solution, applying said solution to a fuser member support substrate, curing said fluoroelastomer compound and said polyorganosiloxane to form an outer layer on said substrate of a volume grafted elastomer which is a substantially uniform integral interpenetrating network of a hybrid composition of said fluoroelastomer and said polyorganosiloxane, said volume graft having been formed by dehydrofluorination of said fluoroelastomer with a nucleophilic dehydrofluorinating agent, followed by addition polymerization by the addition of an alkene or alkyne functionally terminated polyorganosiloxane and a polymerization initiator.