Described herein is a method for making sulfonated polyphenylene polymers and the uses thereof. Such sulfonated polyphenylene polymers, and membranes prepared therefrom, have applications in fuel cells, water electrolyzers, water purification, battery products, and other electrochemical devices.

An organic electronic material that includes a charge transporting polymer which has a branched structure and has a structural unit having a structure represented by Formula (1).

Described herein are associative polymers capable of controlling a physical and/or chemical property of non-polar compositions and related compositions, methods and systems. Associative polymers herein described have a non-polar backbone and functional groups presented at ends of the non-polar backbone, with a number of the functional groups presented at the ends of the non-polar backbone formed by associative functional groups capable of undergoing an associative interaction with another associative functional group with an association constant (k) such that the strength of each associative interaction is less than the strength of a covalent bond between atoms and in particular less than the strength of a covalent bond between backbone atoms.

A copolymer and its use as coating whereby the copolymer comprises a first monomer of the general formula (I)

##STR00001##

and a second monomer of the general formula (II)

##STR00002##

wherein Y is selected from the group consisting of CH.sub.2Z.sub.3, NHCOR.sub.5, CONHR.sub.6, OCOR.sub.7, COOR.sub.8 and OR.sub.9, and where Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, and Z.sub.3 are selected from the group consisting of fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo, hydroxyl, toluene-4-sulfonyloxy and methylsulfonyloxy. R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently from each other selected from the group consisting of linear or branched C.sub.1-C.sub.30 alkyl, a linear or branched C.sub.2-C.sub.30 alkenyl, a linear or branched C.sub.2-C.sub.30 alkynyl, sulfo, nitro, amino, hydroxy, oligo(C.sub.2 to C.sub.4-alkylene glycol), NHCOR.sub.5, CONHR.sub.6, OCOR.sub.7, COOR.sub.8 and OR. R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8 and R.sub.9 are selected from the group consisting of a linear or branched C.sub.1-C.sub.30 alkyl, a linear or branched C.sub.2-C.sub.30 alkenyl and a linear or branched C.sub.2-C.sub.30 alkynyl.