789 results about "Linear polymer" patented technology

The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium metal battery and a lithium metal battery comprising the same. The negative electrode of the present invention comprises a negative active material layer of metallic lithium or a lithium alloy, and a passivation layer formed on the negative active material layer. The passivation layer has a structure comprising a 3-dimensionally cross-linked polymer network matrix penetrated by linear polymers. The passivation layer formed on the surface of the negative electrode reduces reactivity of the negative electrode and stabilizes the surface, so that it offers a lithium metal battery having superior life cycle characteristics.

The present invention provides a method for embedding particles in a solid structure including the steps of extruding a slurry of particles and a polymeric solution into a linear polymer medium having particles embedded into a polymer portion; and curing the polymer portion of the linear polymer medium.

The present invention relates to polymeric nanoparticles, particularly useful in drug and agent delivery, as well as for imaging and diagnosis. The polymeric nanoparticles of the present invention comprise cross-linkers that, when degraded, leave simple linear polymeric molecules that can be excreted by the body. The present invention also relates to methods of producing the polymeric nanoparticles of the present invention, and methods of using them in drug and agent delivery, as well as imaging and diagnosis.

The present invention provides a controlled release device for sustained or pulsatile delivery of pharmaceutically active substances for a predetermined period of time. This invention further provides such device in which sustained or pulsatile delivery is obtained by the unique blend and intimate mixture of pharmaceutically active substances with a microbial polysaccharide and uncrosslinked linear polymer and optionally a crosslinked polymer and/or lipophillic polymer and/or saturated polyglycolyzed glyceride. The invention also provides a process for the manufacture of such devices and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same.

Methods are disclosed of making linear and cross-linked, HMW (high molecular weight) polysilanes and polygermanes, polyperhydrosilanes and polyperhydrogermanes, functional liquids containing the same, and methods of using the liquids in a range of desirable applications. The silane and germane polymers are generally composed of chains of Si and/or Ge substituted with R′ substituents, where each instance of R′ is, for example, independently hydrogen, halogen, alkenyl, alkynyl, hydrocarbyl, aromatic hydrocarbyl, heterocyclic aromatic hydrocarbyl, SiR″₃, GeR″₃, PR″₂, OR″, NR″₂, or SR″; where each instance of R″ is independently hydrogen or hydrocarbyl. The cross-linked polymers can be synthesized by dehalogenative coupling or dehydrocoupling. The linear polymers can be synthesized by ring-opening polymerization. The polymers can be further modified by halogenation and/or reaction with the source of hydride to furnish perhydrosilane and perhydrogermane polymers, which are used in liquid ink formulations. The synthesis allows for tuning of the liquid properties (e.g., viscosity, volatility, and surface tension). The liquids can be used for deposition of films and bodies by spincoating, inkjetting, dropcasting, etc., with or without the use of UV irradiation. The deposited films can be converted into amorphous and polycrystalline silicon or germanium, and silicon or germanium oxide or nitride by curing at 400-600 DEG C. and (optionally) laser- or heat-induced crystallization (and/or dopant activation, when dopant is present).

An approach is presented for designing the polymeric recording layer for nanometer scale thermomechanical storage devices. Cross linked polymers are used as the recording layers in atomic force microscopy data storage devices, giving significantly improved performance when compared to the previously reported linear polymers. This results in superior wear resistance and enhanced erasing, critical features for the long-term multiple read-write cycles of such thermomechanical storage devices. In addition, this ability to introduce a predetermined extent of cross linking allows fine tuning of the thermal and force parameters in the R/W/E (read-write-erase) cycles.

A thermoplastic elastomer film includes a thermoplastic elastomer and a filled semi crystalline predominantly linear polymer. The film includes between about 25 and 70 weight percent filler, between about 5 and 30 by weight percent semi-crystalline linear polymer, and between about 15 and 60 by weight elastomer. The filler is closely associated with the semi-crystalline linear polymer. The elastic film demonstrates a load loss value at a 50 percent elongation of less than about 50 percent, and a breathability of greater than about 100 g/m²/24 hours.

The invention provides a polymerizable polydimethylsiloxane-polyoxyalkylene block copolymer which comprises (1) a linear polymer chain comprising at least two polydimethylsiloxane segments, one hydrophilic polyoxyalkylene segment between each pair of polydimethylsiloxane segments, and one amide-rich linker between each pair of one polydimethylsiloxane segment and one hydrophilic polyoxyalkylene segment, and (2) two terminal (meth)acryloyl groups. The hydrophilized polydiorganosiloxane vinylic crosslinker has a weight average molecular weight of at least 3000 Daltons. The invention is also related to a silicone hydrogel contact lens produced from a polymerizable polydimethylsiloxane-polyoxyalkylene block copolymer of the invention.

The invention relates to the field of materials, in particular to a MOFs material as well as a preparation method and use thereof. The MOFs material comprises an organic metal framework base materialwhich comprises a grafting group; and the grafting group is grafted with linear polymer through a covalent bond. Mechanical tensile property of the MOFs material provided by the invention is greatly improved, and a membrane containing grafted MOF is obviously improved in anti-plasticizingplasticization performance resistance in comparison with a membrane containing un-modified MOF on the premiseof same MOF load amount; and moreover, the membrane containing grafted MOF is obviously improved in gas selectivity in comparison with athe membrane containing un-modified MOF.

Compositions and methods are provided for performing capillary electrophoresis using a composition comprising in combination in an aqueous buffered medium a coating polymer and a sieving polymer, where the sieving polymer is more hydrophilic than the coating polymer and is present in greater amount. Of particular interest are uncrosslinked acrylamide polymer mixtures for coating plastic channels and providing sieving for performing DNA separations in microfluidic devices. Polyacrylamide or N,N-dimethyl acrylamide is used with a N,N-dialkyl acrylamide copolymer, either separately or together for sieving and coating, serving as the medium in capillary electrophoresis DNA separations.

The invention relates to graphene-oxide-modified phenolic-resin-based ultrafine porous carbon fiber and a preparation method thereof. The diameter of the fiber is in a range of 0.3-1.7mum, and the specific surface area of the fiber is 500-900m<2>/g. The fiber has a porous structure which is formed by microporous mainly. Micro-pore volume is 0.20-0.50cm<3>/g, and surface oxygen atomic ratio is lower than 10%. The preparation method comprises the steps that: graphene oxide is added into an organic solvent and is subjected to ultrasonic dispersion, such that a graphene oxide solution is formed; termosetting phenolic resin and a high-molecular-weight linear polymer are added into the graphene oxide organic solution, and are completely dissolved by stirring; the mixed solution is spun into composite fiber, and solidification and carbonization are carried out, such that porous phenolic-resin-based carbon/graphite oxide composite ultrafine fiber is obtained. The sources of adopted raw materials are rich. The prepared composite fiber has the advantages of high structural stability, good flexibility, developed pore structure, controllable surface oxygen content, and suitability for practical application.

An ink set for an inkjet of the present invention comprises an ink and a processing liquid, wherein at least one of the ink and the processing liquid contains a water-soluble non-linear polymer. The non-linear polymer has at least one selected from the group consisting of a branched structure, a cross linking structure and a mesh structure in a molecule.

A breathable, elastic film/support layer laminate includes a thermoplastic elastomer film sheet of a thermoplastic elastomer and a filled semi crystalline predominantly linear polymer. The film includes between about 25 and 70 weight percent filler, between about 5 and 30 by weight percent semi-crystalline linear polymer, and between about 15 and 60 by weight percent elastomeric polymer. The filler is closely associated with the semi-crystalline linear polymer. The film demonstrates a load loss value at a 50 percent elongation of less than 50 percent, and a breathability of greater than 100 g/m²/24 hours and is laminated to a nonwoven layer.

A method of making a new type of biomaterials, biodegrable crosslinked urethane-containing polyester (CUPE) elastomers and a scaffold-sheet engineering method for tissue engineering applications is provided. CUPEs can be synthesized by forming a linear pre-polymer, which is a polyester, introducing the urethane bonds into polyester using a diisocyanate as a linker, and crosslinking the resulting urethane containing linear polymers to form CUPEs via post-polymerization. This family of polymers, CUPEs, exhibit excellent biocompatibility with desired degradation. Tissue engineering scaffolds made of CUPEs are soft and elastic, and have good mechanical strength. Complex tissue grafts can be constructed by a novel layer-by-layer (LBL) scaffold-sheet engineering design using CUPE sheets. CUPE scaffolds can provide openings for cell to cell communication across scaffold layers and angiogenesis into the depth of the construct. Biomolecules, such as anticoagulants, can be incorporated into the CUPE polymers, increasing their viability as vascular graft scaffolds.

A composition for preparing an organic insulating film. The composition includes a functional group-containing monomer, an initiator generating an acid or a radical upon light irradiation or heating, and a linear polymer. Further, an organic insulating film prepared from the composition. Since the organic insulating film has a crosslinked structure, it exhibits solvent resistance in subsequent processes. Further, when the organic insulating film is used to fabricate a transistor, it can improve the electrical properties of the transistor.

The present invention relates to the formation of surface treated zinc oxide and titania particles, and in particular zinc oxide and titania nanoparticles, with a siloxane star-graft copolymer coating, comprising a looped and/or linear polymeric structure on a star-graft copolymer coating, on a particle surface to control the interfacial surface interactions between the particle and the oil phase of the cosmetic skin formulation.

A cross linking maleic anhydride-vinyl acetate copolymer preparation method belongs to the field of copolymers. At present, the research on maleic anhydride-vinyl acetate copolymers mostly focuses on the polymerization research of linear polymers. The invention introduces a monomer, cross linking agents and initiators into medium to dissolve under the condition of nitrogen protection, and reacts for 2 to 24 hours under the temperature of 60 DEG C to 90 DEG C; the monomer is maleic anhydride Man and styrene St, the mol ratio is 1:1, and the mass concentration in the polymerization system is 5 percent to 45 percent; the initiators are organic peroxides or azo compounds, and are 0.05 percent to 1 percent of the total mass of the monomers; the cross linking agents are polyfunctionality alkene organic compounds, and are 0.08 percent to 8.8 percent of the total mass of the reactions system, and the rest is the alkyl ester of medium organic acid. The invention does not use surface active agents or stabilizers, can realize the adjustment and control of crosslinking polymer particle size, appearance and chemical physical properties through the adjustment of the addition amount of the cross linking agents.

This invention concerns a process for polymerizing cyclic oligomers to homopolymers or copolymers, conducted in the presence of one or more linear polymers.

The present application relates to the treatment of textiles to impart wrinkle resistance and softness while maintaining the natural hydrophilicity of the substrate. In one embodiment, it relates to the treatment of linear polymers, yarns, fibers, webs, mesches, fabrics and other fibrous substrates to provide a textile finish that resists wrinkles and remains soft to the touch.

The present invention provides a novel class of molecules, termed “compomers,” that enable the indirect detection of target molecules, as well as novel target detection reagents and compomer templates that encode compomers. Compomers are linear polymers generated from the compomer template portion of a target detection reagent during the course of an assay. In a given assay, each compomer species is correlated with a different target molecule, e.g., a carbohydrate, lipid, polypeptide, or target nucleic acid, particularly a specific nucleotide sequence within a target nucleic acid molecule. When, for example, a target nucleic acid is present in an assay, a compomer species specifically and uniquely correlated with the particular target (e.g., a known SNP or other genetic variant) is generated directly from a target-specific detection reagent (or indirectly from a larger precursor encoded by the compomer template and from which it is subsequently released), after which it can readily be detected, even in an assay where tens, hundreds, or thousands of different compomer species may be generated, as each compomer species is engineered to differ from the others by a small, resolvable defined characteristic (e.g., a mass increment, a difference in subunit composition, sequence, size, length, etc.). When coupled with highly sensitive detection techniques (e.g., MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, nucleic acid hybridization, nuclear magnetic resonance, etc.), a large number of different compomer species can be detected in a single reaction, thereby facilitating highly multiplexed analyses of complex samples.

The invention relates to strong-hydrophobic porous carbon nanofiber and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of porous carbon fiber. The preparation method comprises the following steps: adding thermosetting phenol resin and high molecular weight linear polymers into organic solvent with two proportions to be mixed until the thermosetting phenol resin and the high molecular weight linear polymers are fully dissolved, performing electrostatic spinning on the solution to form phenolic resin fiber, and carrying out curing and carbonizing to obtain the hydrophobic porous carbon nanofiber. The porous carbon nanofiber and the preparation method have the advantages as follows: the diameter, the pore structure and the hydrophobicity of the fiber can be adjusted and controlled through the change of the proportions of the solvent, the prepared carbon nanofiber has good flexibility, a developed pore structure and strong hydrophobicity, and is more conductive to practical application.

A polymer that combines high ionic conductivity with the structural properties required for Li electrode stability is useful as a solid phase electrolyte for high energy density, high cycle life batteries that do not suffer from failures due to side reactions and dendrite growth on the Li electrodes, and other potential applications. The polymer electrolyte includes a linear block copolymer having a conductive linear polymer block with a molecular weight of at least 5000 Daltons, a structural linear polymer block with an elastic modulus in excess of 1×10⁷ Pa and an ionic conductivity of at least 1×10⁻⁵ Scm⁻¹. The electrolyte is made under dry conditions to achieve the noted characteristics. In another aspect, the electrolyte exhibits a conductivity drop when the temperature of electrolyte increases over a threshold temperature, thereby providing a shutoff mechanism for preventing thermal runaway in lithium battery cells.

An oil-free process for forming a fused toner image on a receiver includes forming on a receiver, an image including toner particles that contain a non-crosslinked linear polymeric binder, a wax, and a colorant; and contacting the receiver bearing the toner particle image with a fuser member containing a support, a cushion layer overlying the support, and a release layer overlying the cushion layer. The release layer includes a cured fluorocarbon thermoplastic random copolymer, a cured aminosiloxane copolymer, and a zinc oxide particulate filler. The cured fluorocarbon thermoplastics random copolymer contains —(CH₂CF₂)_x—, —(CF₂CF(CF₃)_y—, and —(CF₂CF₂)_z— subunits, wherein x is from 1 to 40 or 60 to 80 mole percent, y is from 10 to 90 mole percent, z is from 10 to 90 mole percent, and x+y+z equals 100 mole percent. The receiver in contact with the fuser member is subjected to conditions effective in the absence of a release oil for fixing the toner particle image to the receiver.