In a first aspect, a polymer film includes a polyimide. The polyimide includes one or more dianhydrides and one or more diamines. Each of the dianhydrides and diamines is selected from the group consisting of crankshaft monomers, flexible monomers, rigid rotational monomers, rigid non-rotational monomers, and rotational inhibitor monomers. The polymer film has a D.sub.f of 0.005 or less, a water absorption of 2.0% or less and a water vapor transport rate of 50 (g×mil)/(m.sup.2×day) or less. In a second aspect, a metal-clad laminate includes the polymer film of first aspect and a first metal layer adhered to a first outer surface of the polymer film. In a third aspect, an electronic device includes the polymer film of the first aspect.

The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a polyimide film and a polyimide film manufactured thereby. In one embodiment, the method for preparing a polyimide film includes: preparing a polyamic acid by polymerizing a mixture containing an aromatic diamine and an aromatic acid dianhydride; preparing a first composition containing the polyamic acid, an amine-based catalyst, an acid anhydride-based dehydrating agent, and a solvent; and forming a polyimide film at 150° C. or less using the first composition, wherein the first composition contains the amine-based catalyst and the acid anhydride-based dehydrating agent in a molar ratio of 1:2 to 1:5.

A method for manufacturing a polyimide composite film for a flexible metal-clad substrate includes the following steps, providing a polyamide acid solution; providing fluorine polymer particles and mixing the fluorine polymer particles with a dispersant and an organic solution to prepare a fluorine polymer particle dispersion; forming a colloidal polyimide film from the polyamide acid solution; and coating the colloidal polyimide film with the fluorine polymer particle dispersion and then performing baking to form a polyimide composite film.

The present invention provides an electrochromic polyamic acid material, a preparation method thereof and a display device, wherein the molecular structure of the electrochromic polyamic acid material includes oligoaniline and carbazolyl triphenylamine. The oligoaniline serves as an electrochemically sensitive group, and the carbazolyl triphenylamine serves as a fluorescence emitting group. The electrochromic polyamic acid material is an electrically controlled fluorescent polymer. Fluorescence intensity of the electrochromic polyamic acid material undergoes reversible fluorescence conversion with a change of an applied voltage, due to a redox reaction of the oligoaniline at different voltages, resulting in an interchange between a benzene ring and an anthracene ring in a molecular structure, and an electron/energy transfer path with the fluorescence emitting group are generated or eliminated, thereby realizing the electrically controlled fluorescent properties of the electrochromic polyamic acid material.

Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass polyamic acid or polyimide polymers containing a reactive maleimide end group as well as photosensitive compositions made therefrom which are useful for forming films that can be patterned to create structures for microelectronic devices, microelectronic packaging, microelectromechanical systems, optoelectronic devices and displays. In some embodiments the compositions of this invention are shown to feature excellent hitherto unachievable mechanical properties. The negative images formed therefrom exhibit improved thermo-mechanical properties, among other property enhancements.

Disclosed herein are a highly thick polyimide film that contains a reduced number of bubbles therein and exhibits high elasticity and high heat resistance, and a manufacturing method therefor. The polyimide film is obtained by imidizing a poly(amic acid) solution containing an acid dianhydride component including 3,3′,4,4′-benzophenonetetracarboxylic dianhydride (BTDA), 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA), and pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA), and a diamine component including 4,4′-oxydianiline (ODA), para-phenylenediamine (p-phenylenediamine, PPD), and 3,5-diaminobenzoic acid (DABA), and contains a phosphorus (P)-based compound.

Provided herein is a method for manufacturing a polyimide film, the method including the steps of: preparing a polyamic acid solution; preparing a polyamic acid composition by adding a dehydrating agent and an imidizing catalyst to the polyamic acid solution; and applying the polyamic acid to a support to form a film, followed by thermosetting the film in a heater, wherein the thermosetting step comprises a first heating step, a second heating step, and a third heating step, each of the first, the second, and the third step being carried out in a processing temperature range of 100° C. to 550° C.

Disclosed herein are a polyimide film for graphite sheets, a method of fabricating the same, and a graphite sheet fabricated using the same. The polyimide film is fabricated by imidizing a polyamic acid formed by reaction between a dianhydride monomer and a diamine monomer, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of a metal compound and the polyamic acid forms a chelate with metal ions.

A tetracarboxylic dianhydride represented by the following general formula (1): ##STR00001##
[in the formula (1), R.sup.1, R.sup.2, and R.sup.3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom and the like, and n represents an integer of 0 to 12], wherein a ratio of a summed amount of a specific stereoisomer (A) and a specific stereoisomer (B) is 50% by mole or more relative to a total amount of stereoisomers based on three-dimensional configurations of two norbornane rings in the general formula (1), and a content ratio of the stereoisomer (A) is 30% by mole or more relative to the total amount of the stereoisomers.

Disclosed herein are a polyimide film for graphite sheets, a method of fabricating the same, and a graphite sheet fabricated using the same. The polyimide film is fabricated by imidizing a polyamic acid formed by reaction between a dianhydride monomer and a diamine monomer, wherein the reaction is carried out in the presence of particles of a metal compound having an average particle diameter (D.sub.50) of about 1 μm to about 6 μm.