A polysulfone membrane is modified so that monomers are grafted onto the surface of the membrane. The polysulfone membranes can be grafted by contacting the membrane with a grafting solution and exposing the membrane to electromagnetic radiation, typically within the ultraviolet portion of the spectrum. The monomers that are grafted are typically anionic or cationic. The grafted membranes can be used for filtering impurities, such as positively and negatively charged particles, from a liquid. Anionic membranes provide improved filtration of negatively charged impurities, while cationic membranes provide improved filtration of positively charged impurities.

Disclosed are sensor materials and sensors prepared from thermoplastic polymers filled with 2D nanoparticles. The thermoplastic polymers filled with 2D nanoparticles are prepared by a method in which a thermoplastic polymer is melt-blended with at least one layered material under shear sufficient to exfoliate the layered material in the thermoplastic polymer until 2D nanoparticles are formed, to provide covalently linked 2D nanoparticle-filled thermoplastic polymers. Such filled thermoplastic polymers have utility for preparing various types of sensors which are useful in a variety of practical applications and devices.

The present invention relates to a polymer composite material comprising an aramid nanofiber (ANF), and a method for preparing same. More specifically, the present invention relates to an arylene ether-based polymer or arylene ether imide-based polymer composite material which is obtained by mixing an arylene ether-based polymer or an arylene ether imide-based polymer with aramid nanofibers dispersed in a polar aprotic solution or by adding and polymerizing monomers in the dispersion of aramid nanofibers.

A process for the production of expanded material based on sulfone polymers includes an extrusion step in an extruder of virgin sulfone polymer with the injection of at least one expanding agent and in the presence of at least one nucleating agent, and a recycling step of part of the expanded material, which provides a recycled product used as raw material fed to the extruder in combination with the virgin sulfone polymer.

A process of industrial permeographic printing and textile screen-printing for both hot and cold transfer of a graphic image onto fabric applies, as a coating to a surface on one side of a polymer film, a release or separation/detachment composition of matter. The graphic image is provided using serigraphic inks, both water and solvent based, directly onto the layer of release or separation/detachment composition of matter which coats the polymer film. The inks are placed in contact with the polymeric film coated by the layer of release or separation/detachment composition of matter, said layer bearing the inks which constitute the image on the fabric, the inks being transferred to the fabric as a result of the improved release properties of said inks due to the composition of matter.

A core/shell polymer material suitable for three-dimensional printing is provided. The core/shell polymer material may include at least one amorphous polymer as a core particle and at least one semicrystalline polymer as a shell material surrounding the core particle.

A resin film having an aromatic polysulfone as a forming material is provided. The resin film has a thickness of less than 100 μm, and further contains an organic compound having a boiling point no lower than 250° C. and no higher than 400° C. The organic compound is contained in an amount of at least 500 ppm and at most 4000 ppm relative to the mass of the aromatic polysulfone.

A method for forming a graphene-reinforced polymer matrix composite is disclosed. The method includes distributing graphite microparticles into a molten thermoplastic polymer phase; and applying a succession of shear strain events to the molten polymer phase so that the molten polymer phase exfoliates the graphite successively with each event until at least 50% of the graphite is exfoliated to form a distribution in the molten polymer phase of single- and multi-layer graphene nanoparticles less than 50 nanometers thick along the c-axis direction.

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a nanofiltration composite membrane for use to purify water, the methods for preparing said nanofiltration composite membranes and to the nanofiltration composite membranes prepared accordingly.

To provide a fluorinated copolymer composition having improved impact resistance and excellent moldability without impairing the excellent heat resistance and mechanical properties inherent to a thermoplastic heat-resistant resin. This fluorinated copolymer composition comprises a thermoplastic resin A being a melt-moldable heat-resistant thermoplastic resin and a fluorinated elastomer B being a fluorinated elastic copolymer, wherein the fluorinated elastomer B is dispersed in the thermoplastic resin A, the number average particle diameter of the fluorinated elastomer B is from 1 to 300 μm, the volume ratio of the thermoplastic resin A to the fluorinated elastomer B is from 97:3 to 55:45, and the fluorinated copolymer composition has a flexural modulus of from 1,000 to 3,700 MPa.