A polyimide precursor-containing aqueous composition contains at least one polymer material selected from the group consisting of a water-insoluble fibrous organic substance and a polyalkylene oxide having a viscosity-average molecular weight of 5 million or more, a polyimide precursor, particles, and water.

A particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution contains: a polyimide precursor consisting of a polymer of a tetracarboxylic dianhydride and a diamine containing a fluorene-based diamine having a fluorene skeleton; particles; and an aqueous solvent containing water.

A polyimide precursor film contains a polyimide precursor, in which a total content of a solvent containing water and a solvent other than water in the polyimide precursor film is 5 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less, and a mass ratio of water to the solvent other than water in the polyimide precursor film is 0 or more and 2.5 or less.

A polyimide precursor solution contains a polyimide precursor, particles, and a water-based solvent that contains an amine compound (A), an organic solvent (B) other than the amine compound (A) and amide compounds, and water, in which a boiling point of the organic solvent (B) is higher than a boiling point of the amine compound (A), and is 200° C. or higher and 300° C. or lower.

A method of forming a void, channel and/or vascular network in a polymeric matrix comprises providing a pre-vascularized structure that includes a matrix material and a sacrificial material embedded in the matrix material in a predetermined pattern, where the matrix material comprises a monomer and the sacrificial material comprises a polymer. A region of the matrix material is activated to initiate an exothermic polymerization reaction and generate a self-propagating polymerization front. As the polymerization front propagates through the matrix material and polymerizes the monomer, heat from the exothermic reaction simultaneously degrades the sacrificial material into a gas-phase and/or liquid-phase byproduct. Thus, one or more voids or channels having the predetermined pattern are rapidly formed in the matrix material.

The invention relates to a material including a support consisting of a porous composite material including at least one polymer phase forming a binder based on at least one polymer selected from thermoplastic polymers, elastomers, and elastomer thermoplastics, and at least one filler selected from thermally conductive fillers, the pores of the support consisting of the porous composite material being partially or entirely filled with at least one phase-change material. The invention also relates to a method for producing said material.

A particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution contains a polyimide precursor having a unit represented by the following formula (I), particles, and a solvent, in which the particle-dispersed polyimide precursor solution satisfies both the following conditions (1) and (2),

##STR00001## (in the formula (I), A represents a tetravalent organic group, and B represents a divalent organic group represented by any of the following formulas (B1) to (B4)),

##STR00002## (in the formulas (B1) to (B4), Ar.sup.1, Ar.sup.10, and Ar.sup.11 each independently represent a trivalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, Ar.sup.2, Ar.sup.4, Ar.sup.5, Ar.sup.7 and Ar.sup.8 each independently represent a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, Ar.sup.3 and Ar.sup.6 each independently represent a tetravalent aromatic group which may have a substituent or a group represented by the following formula (II), Ar.sup.9 represents a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent or a group represented by the following formula (III), X.sup.1 to X.sup.7 each independently represent NRa, O, or S, Ra represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may have a substituent, or an aryl group, and * represents a bonding site with an adjacent linking group), and

##STR00003## (in the formulas (II) and (III), Ar.sup.12 and Ar.sup.13 each independently represent a trivalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, Ar.sup.14 and Ar.sup.15 each independently represent a divalent aromatic group which may have a substituent, Y and Z each independently represent O, S, S(═O).sub.2, or CRbRc, Rb and Rc each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group which may have a substituent, or an aryl group, and * represents a bonding site with an adjacent linking group),

Condition (1): a total content of the groups represented by the formulas (B1) to (B4) is 1% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the polyimide precursor, and

Condition (2): a content of the particles is 5% by mass or more and 90% by mass or less with respect to a total content of the polyimide precursor and the particles.

Provided are methods for making shaped fluoropolymer by additive processing using fluoropolymer particles, polymerizable binder and extraction with supercritical fluids. Also provided are 3D printable compositions for making shaped fluoropolymer articles and articles comprising a shaped fluoropolymer.

Porous polymeric materials having a very high content of thermally conductive and/or electrically conductive fillers. Process for the preparation of the porous composite material including at least one binder-forming polymeric phase and one or more fillers, this process including the stages of hot mixing, by the molten route, the polymeric phase, the fillers and a sacrificial polymeric phase, so as to obtain a mixture, of shaping the mixture and of removing the sacrificial polymeric phase.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a hierarchically porous polymer and a hierarchically porous polymer prepared thereby. The method comprises the steps of: (a) polymerizing an external oil phase of a high internal phase emulsion (HIPE) consisting aqueous droplets to produce a cross-linked block copolymer; (b) obtaining a macroporous polymer with interconnected macropores by removing the aqueous droplets; and (c) treating the obtained porous polymer with a base, thereby obtaining a hierarchically porous polymer having three-dimensional mesopores formed in the macroporous walls. According to the method, the macropore size and mesopore size of the hierarchically porous polymer can all be controlled. The hierarchically porous polymer prepared by the method can easily separate polymers having different sizes, and thus is highly useful in the polymer separation field.