A fiber-reinforced polyarylene sulfide copolymer composite base material includes a continuous reinforcing fiber, or a reinforcing fiber base material with discontinuous reinforcing fibers dispersed therein; and a polyarylene sulfide copolymer impregnated into the continuous reinforcing fiber or the reinforcing fiber base material; in which the glass transition temperature of the polyarylene sulfide copolymer is 95° C. to 190° C. The fiber-reinforced polyarylene sulfide copolymer composite base material has high workability during molding of molded articles from the composite base material and increased rigidity at high temperature, while having chemical resistance of polyarylene sulfide.

A family of carboxylic acid groups containing fluorene/fluorenon copolymers is disclosed as binders of silicon particles in the fabrication of negative electrodes for use with lithium ion batteries. Triethyleneoxide side chains provide improved adhesion to materials such as, graphite, silicon, silicon alloy, tin, tin alloy. These binders enable the use of silicon as an electrode material as they significantly improve the cycle-ability of silicon by preventing electrode degradation over time. In particular, these polymers, which become conductive on first charge, bind to the silicon particles of the electrode, are flexible so as to better accommodate the expansion and contraction of the electrode during charge/discharge, and being conductive promote the flow battery current.

The present invention provides an anion exchange resin capable of producing an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, a binder for forming an electrode catalyst layer and a battery electrode catalyst layer. The anion exchange resin of the present invention has a hydrophobic unit, a hydrophilic unit and divalent fluorine-containing groups. The hydrophobic unit has divalent hydrophobic groups composed of one aromatic ring or a plurality of aromatic rings that are repeated via carbon-carbon bond. The hydrophilic unit has divalent hydrophilic groups composed of one aromatic ring or a plurality of aromatic rings, at least one of which has an anion exchange group, that are repeated via carbon-carbon bond. The divalent fluorine-containing groups have a specific structure and are bonded via carbon-carbon bond to the hydrophobic unit and/or the hydrophilic unit and/or a moiety other than these units.

A solid, ionically conductive, polymer material with a crystallinity greater than 30%; a glassy state; and both at least one cationic and anionic diffusing ion, wherein each diffusing ion is mobile in the glassy state.

Embodiments for a crosslinked alkoxysilyl polynorbornene homopolymer and methods of making crosslinked alkoxysilyl polynorbornene homopolymer are provided, where the method comprises polymerizing through addition polymerization or ring opening metathesis polymerization a norbornene monomer comprising an alkoxysilyl moiety in the presence of a catalyst to produce an alkoxysilyl modified polynorbornene homopolymer, and producing a crosslinked alkoxysilyl polynorbornene homopolymer through sol-gel initiated crosslinking of the alkoxysilyl modified polynorbornene homopolymer at ambient conditions, or acid-catalyzed conditions.

An anion exchange membrane is made by mixing 2 trifluoroMethyl Ketone [nominal] (1.12 g, 4.53 mmol), 1 BiPhenyl (0.70 g, 4.53 mmol), methylene chloride (3.0 mL). trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TFSA) (3.0 mL) to produce a pre-polymer. The pre-polymer is then functionalized to produce an anion exchange polymer. The pre-polymer may be functionalized with trimethylamamine in solution with water. The pre-polymer may be imbibed into a porous scaffold material, such as expanded polytetrafluoroethylene to produce a composite anion exchange membrane.

A method of forming a void, channel and/or vascular network in a polymeric matrix comprises providing a pre-vascularized structure that includes a matrix material and a sacrificial material embedded in the matrix material in a predetermined pattern, where the matrix material comprises a monomer and the sacrificial material comprises a polymer. A region of the matrix material is activated to initiate an exothermic polymerization reaction and generate a self-propagating polymerization front. As the polymerization front propagates through the matrix material and polymerizes the monomer, heat from the exothermic reaction simultaneously degrades the sacrificial material into a gas-phase and/or liquid-phase byproduct. Thus, one or more voids or channels having the predetermined pattern are rapidly formed in the matrix material.

A polymer electrolyte membrane of the present disclosure comprises a perfluorosulfonic acid resin (A), wherein the polymer electrolyte membrane has a phase-separation structure having a phase where fluorine atoms are detected in majority and a phase where carbon atoms are detected in majority, in an image of a membrane surface observed under an SEM-EDX, and the polymer electrolyte membrane has a phase having an average aspect ratio of 1.5 or more and 10 or less in an image of a membrane cross-section observed under an SEM.

To provide an opened carbon fibre bundle having a good fibre-opening state and excellent resin impregnation properties. An opened carbon fibre bundle comprising a carbon fibre bundle comprising a plurality of carbon fibres and coated particles arranged between the carbon fibres, wherein the coated particles comprise core particles and a synthetic resin coating that covers at least a part of the surface of the core particles, and the core particles are integrally bonded to the carbon fibre surface via the synthetic resin coating.

An object of the invention is to provide a thermoplastic resin prepreg that gives a fiber-reinforced composite material with excellent mechanical strength even through molding at a low temperature within a short period of time. The thermoplastic resin prepreg of the invention is a thermoplastic resin prepreg including at least a reinforcing fiber substrate and a thermoplastic resin composition partially or completely impregnated in the reinforcing fiber substrate. The thermoplastic resin prepreg is configured such that the thermoplastic resin composition contains 50 mass % or more of polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) based on the total thermoplastic resin composition, and is a thermoplastic resin composition having a crystallization enthalpy of 22 J/g or more as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) at a cooling rate of 50° C./min from 400° C.