A purpose of the present invention is to provide a binder composition for a secondary battery which can impart excellent battery characteristics, even when the heat treatment temperature is low. The binder composition for a secondary battery according to the present invention is characterized by comprising a polyamic acid comprising a repeating unit represented by chemical formula (1) and an aromatic compound comprising an electron donating group and an organic acid group, ##STR00001##
wherein A is a tetravalent group obtained by removing acid anhydride groups from a tetracarboxylic dianhydride, B is a divalent group obtained by removing amino groups from a diamine, and at least one of A and B is an aliphatic group.

The present invention provides a photosensitive polyimide composition comprising a polyimide resin having a structural unit represented by the formula (1) and a structural unit represented by the formula (2), a quinonediazide sulfonate, a thermal curing agent, and a thermal acid generator. ##STR00001## In the formulas (1) and (2), n is an integer of 10 to 600, Ar.sub.1 is a tetravalent organic group; Ar.sub.2 is a divalent to tetravalent organic group; Ar.sub.3 is a divalent aromatic group; and R.sub.1 is an OH group or a COOH group. The present invention also provides a photoresist film made of the above-mentioned photosensitive polyimide composition.

The present invention relates to a hydrophilic polyimide including at least one type of building blocks [A-B] and [A-C], and represented by the formula -[A-B].sub.n-[A-C].sub.m— (I), wherein: the n-bracketed building blocks and the m-bracketed building blocks are randomly distributed over the polyimide chain; repeat unit A results from a monomer comprising two carboxylic anhydride moieties, repeat unit B is hydrophilic and results from a first hydrophilic monomer comprising two primary amine moieties and at least one further hydrophilic moiety different from the primary amines, and repeat unit C is hydrophilic and results from a second hydrophilic monomer comprising two primary amine moieties and at least one further hydrophilic moiety different from the primary amines; wherein: n and m represent independently an integer from 0 to about 1000; wherein n+m is an integer from about 10 to about 1000.

The present invention also relates to a porous membrane comprising the same, a method of producing the hydrophilic polyimide and the porous membrane, a liquid phase separation system comprising the porous membrane, and a liquid phase separation method.

The present invention relates to a polymer having excellent liquid crystal alignment and electrical properties and thus is suitable for use as a liquid crystal alignment agent, a liquid crystal alignment agent containing the same, a liquid crystal aligning film formed from the liquid crystal alignment agent, and a liquid crystal display device containing the liquid crystal aligning film.

The process for synthesizing a poly(amic acid) polymer or a polyimide polymer is improved by using a solvent system consisting essentially of: (A) a first component consisting essentially of at least one of a sulfoxide, e.g., DMSO, and an alkyl phosphate, e.g., triethyl phosphate, and (B) optionally, a second component consisting essentially of at least one aprotic glycol ether, e.g., dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether.

A photosensitive polyimide resin composition containing: a ring-closed polyimide resin (A) having a structure represented by Formula (1); and a polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound (B) having radically polymerizable functional groups and oxyalkylene groups, wherein a number of the radically polymerizable functional groups in the polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound (B) is 3 or greater and 100 or less, and wherein a total number of moles of the oxyalkylene groups added in the polyfunctional radically polymerizable compound (B) is 5 or greater and 100 or less.

A method, composition, and article of manufacture. The method can include depositing a layer, which includes a set of particles and a set of microcapsules encapsulating polymerizing agents. The method can also include fusing particles in selected areas of the layer with a laser, and rupturing at least a portion of microcapsules using at least one energy source selected from the laser, an ultraviolet (UV) radiation source, and a heat source. The composition can include a set of particles and a set of microcapsules, each containing a polymerizing agent encapsulated by a degradable shell. The article of manufacture can include fused layers that include fused particles and pores sealed in reactions with polymerizing agents released from degradable microcapsules.

A high-modulus black matte polyimide film is provided, the high-modulus black matte polyimide film includes polyimide in an amount from 75 to 93 wt % of the high-modulus matte polyimide film, in which dianhydride and diamine are polymerized to form a polyimide precursor, and the polyimide precursor is chemically cyclized to form the polyimide; carbon black in an amount from 2 to 8 wt % of the high-modulus matte polyimide film; and liquid crystal polymer micropowder having a particle size between 2 and 10 m and being in an amount from 5 to 20 wt % of the high-modulus matte polyimide film, wherein the high-modulus matte polyimide film has a gloss value at 60 being less than 50.

Disclosed herein is a high thermal resistant polyolefin-based separator including a coating layer containing polyamic acid.

Specifically, the separator includes a polyolefin-based substrate film, and a coating layer containing polyamic acid formed on one or both surfaces of the polyolefin-based substrate film, wherein the polyamic acid contains one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of a sulfone group, a trifluoromethyl group, an alkyl group, and a phenyl ether group.

Also, disclosed herein is an electrochemical battery having improved thermal stability by using the separator including a coating layer containing polyamic acid.

The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal alignment film, a method for producing the same, a substrate, and a display device. The liquid crystal alignment film includes a polyimide having a fluorine-containing group, wherein the polyimide is polymerized from dicarboxylic anhydride containing one or more fluorine atoms, a C.sub.12-20 monoamine and a diamine. The introduction of the long flexible chain and the fluorine-containing group allow the pretilt angle of the polyimide synthesized by the present disclosure to reach 3 to 5, and the introduction of fluorine element remarkably improves the transmittance of the synthesized polyimide and decreases water absorption. The modified fluorine-containing long flexible chain polyimide material prepared may be used in a liquid crystal alignment film of TFT-LCD, and enhance light transmittance, thermal stability, chemical stability, adhesion, etc. of the liquid crystal alignment film, thereby avoiding related defects caused by polyimide materials.