An example of a bottlebrush polymer has a polymer backbone and a plurality of individual brush moieties bonded to the polymer backbone. The individual brush moieties include a ketone, a hydrophilic segment, and a surface adhesive terminal group. The brush moieties can be functionalized and/or cross-linked.

A ladder tetrazine polymer is disclosed.

Provided is a charge-transporting composition that contains: a charge-transporting substance comprising a polythiophene derivative of formula (1) or an amine adduct thereof; an organosilane compound selected from fluoroalkyl-group-containing silanes, etc.; metal oxide nanoparticles; and an organic solvent.

##STR00001##

(R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are, mutually independently, a hydrogen atom, a C1-40 alkoxy group, —O—[Z—O].sub.p—R.sup.e, a sulfonic acid group, etc., or are —O—Y—O— formed by the bonding of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2; Y is a C1-40 alkylene group that may contain an ether bond, or may be substituted with a sulfonic acid group; Z is a C1-40 alkylene group that may be substituted with a halogen atom; p is an integer of 1 or greater; and R.sup.e is a hydrogen atom, a C1-40 alkyl group, etc.)).

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a repeat unit defined by ##STR00001##
where each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, and R.sub.8 includes at least one of a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, and/or a first hydrocarbon chain having between 1 and 20 carbon atoms, inclusively, where each of A.sub.1, A.sub.2, A.sub.3 and A.sub.4 are either a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, when A.sub.1 is a nitrogen atom, A.sub.2 is a carbon atom, when A.sub.2 is a nitrogen atom, A.sub.1 is a carbon atom, when A.sub.3 is a nitrogen atom, A.sub.4 is a carbon atom, when A.sub.4 is a nitrogen atom, A.sub.3 is a carbon atom, either A.sub.1 or A.sub.2 form a covalent bond, x, with a carbon atom, a, either A.sub.3 or A.sub.4 form a covalent bond, y, with a carbon atom, b, L is a linker group that includes an aromatic ring, and n is between 1 and 20, inclusively.

The present invention provides, among other aspects, stabilized chromophoric nanoparticles. In certain embodiments, the chromophoric nanoparticles provided herein are rationally functionalized with a pre-determined number of functional groups. In certain embodiments, the stable chromophoric nanoparticles provided herein are modified with a low density of functional groups. In yet other embodiments, the chromophoric nanoparticles provided herein are conjugated to one or more molecules. Also provided herein are methods for making rationally functionalized chromophoric nanoparticles.

Chemically inert, mechanically tough, cationic metallo-polyelectrolytes designed as durable anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) via ring-opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) of cobaltocenium-containing cyclooctene with triazole as the only linker group, followed by backbone hydrogenation to provide a new class of AEMs with a polyethylene-like framework and alkaline-stable cobaltocenium cation for ion transport, which exhibit excellent thermal, chemical and mechanical stability, as well as high ion conductivity.

A method for synthesizing a poly(phenylene) with high ion selectivity comprises dissolving an alkyl halide poly(phenylene) in a polar aprotic solvent to form a nonaqueous solution and adding an anhydrous nucleophile to the nonaqueous solution to replace the halide of the alkyl halide poly(phenylene) with a cationic group of the nucleophile. The poly(phenylene) can be used in anion exchange membranes.

A polymer, such as for use in a petroleum composition, is provided. The polymer has at least the following repeating unit (I):

##STR00001##

wherein, R.sub.1 includes an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, an amine, or -A-YR.sub.10 wherein A is a direct bond or an alkylene; Y is C(O)O, OC(O), C(O)N(R.sub.11), N(R.sub.11)C(O), C(O), N(R.sub.11), O, or S; R.sub.10 includes an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, or a polyether; and R.sub.11 is H or an alkyl; R.sub.2 is an alkylene; X is O, N, OC(O), or NC(O); R.sub.3 includes an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, or an aryl; R.sub.4 includes H, an alkyl, an alkenyl, an alkynyl, or an aryl; and p is 0 when X is O, OC(O), or NC(O) and p is 1 when X is N.
The present invention also provides a method for forming the aforementioned polymer containing the aforementioned repeating unit (I) as well as a method for using the aforementioned polymer containing the aforementioned repeating unit (I).

Modified thermoplastic hydrocarbon thermoplastic resins are provided, as well as methods of their manufacture and uses thereof in rubber compositions. The modified thermoplastic resins are modified by decreasing the relative quantity of the dimer, trimer, tetramer, and pentamer oligomers as compared to the corresponding unmodified thermoplastic resin polymers, resulting in a product that exhibits a greater shift in the glass transition temperature of the elastomer(s) used in tire formulations. This translates to better viscoelastic predictors of tire tread performance, such as wet grip and rolling resistance. The modified thermoplastic resins impart remarkable properties on various rubber compositions, such as tires, belts, hoses, brakes, and the like. Automobile tires incorporating the modified thermoplastic resins are shown to possess excellent results in balancing the properties of rolling resistance, tire wear, snow performance, and wet braking performance.

An example of a bottlebrush polymer has a polymer backbone and a plurality of individual brush moieties bonded to the polymer backbone. The individual brush moieties respectively including a ketone, a hydrophilic segment, and a surface adhesive terminal group. The brush moieties can be functionalized and/or cross-linked.