A polyimide film, a method of manufacturing the same, and a flexible metal foil clad laminate including the same. The polyimide film includes: a first imide bond unit having a glass transition temperature of 400° C. or higher; and a second imide bond unit having a glass transition temperature of less than 400° C., wherein the first imide bond unit is present in an amount of about 39 mol% to about 90 mol% in the polyimide film.

The invention generally relates to shape memory films that are tri-functionally crosslinked and that comprise multiple, non-terminal, phenylethynyl moieties. In addition, the present invention relates methods of fabricating such films. Due to the improved properties of such SMPs, the SMP designer can program in to the SMP thermomechanical property enhancements that make the SMP suitable, among other things, for advanced sensors, high temperature actuators, responder matrix materials and heat responsive packaging.

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a polyimide-based film and a polyimide-based film manufactured thereby and, particularly, to a method for manufacturing a polyimide-based film and a polyimide-based film manufactured thereby, wherein the polyimide-based film is useful as a cover substrate for a flexible electronic device since flexure characteristics thereof, represented by yield elongation, are excellent.

The present invention provides an amide acid oligomer which has specific composition and which is capable of providing a cured product having excellent physical properties, in particular, an excellent glass transition temperature, etc.

Provided is a liquid crystal aligning agent composition including a urea-based compound that contains two or more urea functional groups and has a structure in which a hydroxyalkyl group is substituted for a terminal amino group of a urea functional group, together with polyimide and its precursor polymer.

This invention relates to a polyamide-imide precursor, a polyamide-imide obtained by imidizing the same, a polyamide-imide film, and an image display device including the film. The polyamide-imide precursor includes, in a molecular structure thereof, a first block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including dianhydride and diamine, and a second block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including an aromatic dicarbonyl compound and aromatic diamine. The dianhydride includes biphenyltetracarboxylic acid dianhydride (BPDA) and 2-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane dianhydride (6FDA), and the diamine includes bistrifluoromethylbenzidine (TFDB).

The present invention relates to a polyamide-imide precursor, a polyamide-imide obtained by imidizing the same, a polyamide-imide film, and an image display device including the film. The polyamide-imide precursor includes, in a molecular structure thereof, a first block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including dianhydride and diamine, a second block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including an aromatic dicarbonyl compound and the diamine, and a third block, obtained by copolymerizing monomers including the aromatic dicarbonyl compound and aromatic diamine. The dianhydride for forming the first block includes 2-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane dianhydride (6FDA), and the diamine for forming the first block and the second block includes 9,9-bis(3-fluoro-4-aminophenyl)fluorene (FFDA).

Aspects of the present disclosure provide fluoropolymers and methods for forming and using such fluoropolymers. Fluoropolymers include polyfluorobenzoxazines and polyfluoroimides. Methods for forming polyphthalonitriles are also provided. The present disclosure is further directed to compositions containing one or more fluoropolymers and one or more metal oxides.

A polyamic acid solution includes a dianhydride and a diamine. The dianhydride includes pyromellitic dianhydride, the diamine includes a benzimidazole, the molar ratio of dianhydride monomer to diamine monomer is in a range of from 0.85:1 to 0.99:1, and the polyamic acid solution has a solids content in a range of from 10 to 25 weight percent and a viscosity in a range of from 300 to 3000 poise.

A photosensitive resin composition is also provided that includes a polymer precursor selected from a polyimide precursor and a polybenzoxazole precursor; a photo-radical polymerization initiator; and a solvent, in which an acid value of an acid group contained in the polymer precursor and having a neutralization point in a pH range of 7.0 to 12.0 is in a range of 2.5 to 34.0 mgKOH/g, and either the polymer precursor contains a radically polymerizable group or the photosensitive resin composition includes a radically polymerizable compound other than the polymer precursor.