Porous three-dimensional networks of polyimide and porous three-dimensional networks of carbon and methods of their manufacture are described. For example, polyimide aerogels are prepared by mixing a dianhydride and a diisocyanate in a solvent comprising a pyrrolidone and acetonitrile at room temperature to form a sol-gel material and supercritically drying the sol-gel material to form the polyimide aerogel. Porous three-dimensional polyimide networks, such as polyimide aerogels, may also exhibit a fibrous morphology. Having a porous three-dimensional polyimide network undergo an additional step of pyrolysis may result in the three dimensional network being converted to a purely carbon skeleton, yielding a porous three-dimensional carbon network. The carbon network, having been derived from a fibrous polyimide network, may also exhibit a fibrous morphology.

A polyamideimide resin composition containing a polyamideimide resin (A) that contains structural units derived from 3,3-dimethylbiphenyl-4,4-diisocyanate and/or 3,3-dimethylbiphenyl-4,4-diamine in an amount totaling 30 mol % or more relative to all the structural units derived from isocyanates and/or diamines, water (B), and an organic solvent (C).

A semipreg that can be cured/molded to form aerospace composite parts including rocket booster casings. The semipreg includes a fibrous layer and a resin layer located on one side of the fibrous layer. The resin layer includes an epoxy component that is a combination of a hydrocarbon epoxy novolac resin and a trifunctional epoxy resin and optionally a tetrafunctional epoxy resin. The resin matrix includes polyethersulfone as a toughening agent and a thermoplastic particle component.

An electric insulating material, an electric insulating coating compound used this material and an electric insulating wire used this coating compound having excellent thermal conduction performance (high thermal conductivity), said material, coating compound and wire comprised of a polyamideimide resin having repeating unit of 4,4-stilbenedicarbonate group, specifically, wherein the polyamideimide resin comprised of amido bond of stilbenedicarboxylic acid represented by general formula (I). Said resin is useful for insulated coils of electric motors of solar car used solar batteries, and it is particularly excellent in thermal conduction performance, also excellent in heat resistance and the like, thermal conduction performance can be improved without using filler.

A poly(amide-imide) copolymer including an amide structural unit having an amide bond in a polymer main chain and an imide structural unit having an imide bond in a polymer main chain, wherein at least one imide structural unit includes a moiety cross-linked to an adjacent polymer main chain through an amide bond.

The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of porous particles comprising at least one polyimide by reacting (A) at least one polyisocyanate having on average at least two isocyanate groups per molecule and (B) at least one polycarboxylic acid having at least two COOH groups per molecule or anhydride thereof, in the presence of at least one solvent, optionally at least one catalyst and optionally at least one further additive, to cause precipitation of a polyimide in the solvent to form the porous particles, to porous particles, obtained with this process, to parts, bodies, foams and/or material comprising these porous particles, and to the use of the porous particles or of the parts, bodies, foams and/or material as insulation material and in vacuum insulation.

A thermally conductive resin is provided. The thermally conductive resin has the formula

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m is an integer ranging from 0 to 95, n is an integer ranging from 1 to 50, and o is an integer ranging from 1 to 80. A thermal interface material including the thermally conductive resin is also provided.

A separator for a rechargeable battery includes a porous substrate and a heat-resistance layer disposed on at least one surface of the porous substrate, wherein the heat-resistance layer includes a cross-linkable binder, and the cross-linkable binder is derived from a polymer including a structural unit including an aromatic moiety and a (meth)acrylate group; and a rechargeable lithium battery includes the same.

The present invention provides an adhesive composition for a flexible printed wiring board containing (A) an epoxy resin; (B) no phosphorus-containing epoxy resin; and (C) a polyamide-imide resin.

This invention provides a preparation method of solid self-lubricating material with high temperature resistance, including steps described as follows: first, mixing polymer matrix resin and nano lubricating filler to compose a uniform raw material powders; then, placing the raw material powders in the cavity of hot-press die; keeping the temperature for 90-120 min at the first prepressing temperature, controlling the hot-pressing pressure under the third pre-loading pressure, and gradually increasing the temperature to the solid-phase molding temperature of the material; gradually reducing the temperature to the first preloading temperature after the solid-phase molding is completed; next, removing the pressure, finally, obtaining the solid self-lubricating material by naturally cooling to normal temperature and demoulding. This invention adjusts the hot-pressing molding temperature according to the drift value of glass transition temperature, in order to avoid the degradation of tribological properties and mechanical properties caused by uneven plasticization and overheating of composite materials during the compression molding process.