Provided is a positive electrode for a secondary battery that can cause a secondary battery to display excellent battery characteristics. The positive electrode for a secondary battery includes a positive electrode mixed material layer and a current collector. The positive electrode mixed material layer contains a positive electrode active material, a conductive material, a polymer A including a nitrogen-containing heterocycle and having a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 300 and not more than 70,000, and a polymer B including a nitrile group. The positive electrode mixed material layer has a degree of nitrogen segregation of 1.4 or less as determined using an electron probe microanalyzer.

Provided is a positive electrode for a secondary battery that can cause a secondary battery to display excellent battery characteristics. The positive electrode for a secondary battery includes a positive electrode mixed material layer and a current collector. The positive electrode mixed material layer contains a positive electrode active material, a conductive material, a polymer A including a nitrogen-containing heterocycle and having a weight-average molecular weight of not less than 300 and not more than 70,000, and a polymer B including a nitrile group. The positive electrode mixed material layer has a degree of nitrogen segregation of 1.4 or less as determined using an electron probe microanalyzer.

The present invention relates to a facile process for the preparation of non-covalently cross-linked self-assembled perylene bisimide nano structures using hydrogen bonding interactions with poly-4-vinyl pyridine or oligophenylene vinylene (OPV) as structural motif.

The present invention relates to a facile process for the preparation of non-covalently cross-linked self-assembled perylene bisimide nano structures using hydrogen bonding interactions with poly-4-vinyl pyridine or oligophenylene vinylene (OPV) as structural motif.

A polymeric material having a negative photoelastic constant. The polymeric material comprises: (a) a polymer comprising polymerized units of 2-vinylpyridine, 4-vinylpyridine, methyl methacrylate or a combination thereof; (b) a C.sub.9-C.sub.25 aliphatic polycyclic compound; and (c) an organic compound having a boiling point of at least 200° C.

A polymeric material having a negative photoelastic constant. The polymeric material comprises: (a) a polymer comprising polymerized units of 2-vinylpyridine, 4-vinylpyridine, methyl methacrylate or a combination thereof; (b) a C.sub.9-C.sub.25 aliphatic polycyclic compound; and (c) an organic compound having a boiling point of at least 200° C.

Doped poly(2-vinylpyridine) which comprises 2 to 30 wt % of a dopant which is a C.sub.9-C.sub.25 aliphatic polycyclic compound.

Doped poly(2-vinylpyridine) which comprises 2 to 30 wt % of a dopant which is a C.sub.9-C.sub.25 aliphatic polycyclic compound.

Polycationic polymeric antimicrobial surfactant and polymeric biocompatible antimicrobial surfactant compositions are useful in dispersing various compounds in a carrier liquid. The polycationic polymeric antimicrobial surfactant and polymeric biocompatible antimicrobial surfactant compositions employ polymers having both hydrophilic domains and hydrophobic domains so that the compositions can disperse particles such as polymer particles or droplets in a continuous phase as well as provide stable dispersions that have not been provided before. The antimicrobial properties of the compositions provide much-needed capabilities of fighting infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses in a wide spectrum of products such as paint, adhesives, and coatings. Methods of using these compositions as well as methods of making products using the compositions are disclosed.

Membranes permeable to an analyte may overlay the active sensing region of a sensor to limit the analyte flux and improve the response linearity of the sensor. Temperature variation of the analyte permeability can be problematic in some instances. Polymeric membrane compositions having limited variation in analyte permeability as a function of temperature may comprise: a polymer backbone comprising one or more side chains that comprise a heterocycle; and an amine-free polyether arm appended, via an alkyl spacer or a hydroxy-functionalized alkyl spacer, to the heterocycle of at least a portion of the one or more side chains.