183 results about "Vinylidene group" patented technology

An electronic device module comprising:A. At least one electronic device, e.g., a solar cell, andB. A polymeric material in intimate contact with at least one surface of the electronic device, the polymeric material comprising (1) an ethylene-based polymer composition characterized by a Comonomer Distribution Constant greater than about 45, more preferably greater than 50, most preferably greater than 95, and as high as 400, preferably as high as 200, wherein the composition has less than 120 total unsaturation unit / 1,000,000C, preferably the ethylene-based polymer compositions comprise up to about 3 long chain branches / 1000 carbons, more preferably from about 0.01 to about 3 long chain branches / 1000 carbons; the ethylene-based polymer composition can have a ZSVR of at least 2; the ethylene-based polymer compositions can be further characterized by comprising less than 20 vinylidene unsaturation unit / 1,000,000C; the ethylene-based polymer compositions can have a bimodal molecular weight distribution (MWD) or a multi-modal MWD; the ethylene-based polymer compositions can have a comonomer distribution profile comprising a mono or bimodal distribution from 35° C. to 120° C., excluding purge; the ethylene-based polymer compositions can comprise a single DSC melting peak; the ethylene-based polymer compositions can comprise a weight average molecular weight (Mw) from about 17,000 to about 220,000, (2) optionally, a vinyl silane, (3) optionally, a free radical initiator, e.g., a peroxide or azo compound, or a photoinitiator, e.g., benzophenone, and (4) optionally, a co-agent.

The present invention provides a process for producing a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon prepared using an α-olefin as a raw material and represented by the general formula (1), including the steps of: (I) producing a vinylidene olefin by dimerizing the α-olefin in the presence of a metallocene complex catalyst; (II) further dimerizing the vinylidene olefin in the presence of an acid catalyst; and (III) hydrogenating the obtained dimer. Further, there are provided a lubricant composition containing the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon compound produced by the above process, a bearing oil consisting of the lubricant composition, and making use of the same, a bearing and gyral equipment. The saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds produced by the process of the present invention have low-temperature fluidity, exhibiting low evaporativity, and excellent in thermal stability and oxidation stability. Thus, the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon compounds are suitable for use as, for example, a base oil of lubricant composition for hydraulic pressure, turbine, working machine, bearing, gear, metal-working, etc.

Nonaqueous electrolytic liquids for lithium secondary batteries which have flame retardancy (self-extinguishing characteristics) or incombustibility (no flash point), have a high conductivity, and are electrochemically stable. One of the nonaqueous electrolytic liquids comprises a nonaqueous solvent comprising as an essential ingredient at least one phosphate (a) selected among chain phosphoric esters (a1) and cyclic phosphoric esters (a2). The nonaqueous solvent may further contain a cyclic carboxylic ester (b1) and a cyclic carbonic ester (b2). Another nonaqueous electrolytic liquid comprises the nonaqueous solvent and incorporated therein at least either a vinylene carbonate compound (c1) or a vinylethylene carbonate compound (c2) and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of cyclic amide compounds (d1), cyclic carbamate compounds (d2), and cyclic hetero-compounds (d3).

A process is described for preparing polyisobutene having a content of terminal vinylidene groups of at least 75 mol % by polymerizing isobutene or isobutenic hydrocarbon mixtures in the liquid phase in the presence of a boron trifluoride complex catalyst of the composition(BF3)a.L1b.L2c.L3dwhere L1 is water, a primary C1–C5-alkanol and / or a secondary C3–C5-alkanol, L2 is at least one aldehyde and / or one ketone, L3 is an ether having at least 5 carbon atoms, a secondary alkanol having at least 6 carbon atoms, a primary alkanol having at least 6 carbon atoms and / or a tertiary alkanol, the b:a ratio is in the range from 0.9 to 3.0, the c:a ratio is in the range from 0.01 to 0.5, and the d:a ratio is in the range from 0 to 1.0.

A multilayer structure comprising (A) a fabric and (B) a polymeric layer comprising a substantially random interpolymer comprising in polymerized form i) one or more α-olefin monomers and ii) one or more vinyl or vinylidene aromatic monomers and / or one or more sterically hindered aliphatic or cycloaliphatic vinyl or vinylidene monomers, and optionally iii) other polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s); layer (B) being free from a substantial amount of tackifier. The multilayer structure has desirable haptics and surprisingly good drape properties. It is useful in many applications, for example as water-impermeable clothes, tablecloths, tents, water-impermeable covers, curtains, artificial leather or upholstery.

The invention relates to a process for the purification of thiophenes by means of precipitation. The purified thiophenes are liquid at room temperature, have a purity of at least 99.50 wt. %, and are represented by the following general formula (I), wherein R1 and R2 independently of each other are, for example, a linear or branched C1-C20-alkyl group, or together form a fused C1-C20-dioxyalylene ring. The process involves: (I) precipitating the thiophene by cooling a solution of the thiophene and at least one solvent; or (II) precipitating the thiophene by adding the thiophene to a cooled solution of solvent and optionally the thiophene. The solutions are cooled to a temperature below the melting point of the thiophene.

A fully formulated lubricating oil, lubricated surface, and lubricant additive concentrates for lubricants providing reduced sludge formation. The fully formulated lubricating oil composition has therein at least one succinimide dispersant derived from a polyalkylene compound having from about 50 to about 85% vinylidene double bonds in the compound, a metal containing detergent, at least one wear reducing agent, at least one antioxidant, and a hydrocarbon soluble titanium compound as a friction modifier. The lubricating oil composition is also substantially free of molybdenum compounds.

New and novel copolymers of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene containing up to 24% by weight hexafluoropropylene having lower DSC melting temperatures at 8 weight percent or greater nominal HFP content, and having improved solution clarity and fluidity, longer gel times and lower extractables than prior art vinylidene fluoride-hexafluoropropylene copolymers of comparable HFP content whose syntheses are disclosed in sufficient detail to duplicate, to novel compositions of matter and articles of manufacture containing such copolymers, processes for the preparation and use of the copolymers, of the compositions of matter containing such copolymers and of the articles of manufacture containing such copolymers are disclosed. Improved electrochemical cells based on the new and novel copolymers are particularly disclosed.

The present invention relates to a photoactive material comprising a donor substance and an acceptor substance, wherein the donor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the acceptor substance comprises or consists of one or more compounds of formula (I) described herein, or the donor substance comprises or consists of a first compound of formula (I) described herein and the acceptor substance comprises a second compound of formula (I) described herein with the proviso that the first and second compound are not the same, as well as to an organic solar cell comprising said photoactive material. The present invention also relates to a photoelectric conversion device comprising or consisting of two or more organic solar cells comprising said photoactive material and to compounds of formula (I) as described herein for use as donor substance or as acceptor substance in a photoactive material. Further, the present invention relates to the use of a compound of formula (III) as described herein in the synthesis of a compound of formula (I) as described herein.

Provided is a surface-stabilized anode active material particulate (for use in a lithium battery), comprising: (a) one or a plurality of prelithiated or un-prelithiated anode active material particles (with or without a coating of carbon, graphene, or ion-conducting polymer); (b) a protecting polymer layer that wraps around, embraces or encapsulates the one or plurality of anode active material particles, wherein the protecting polymer layer has a thickness from 0.5 nm to 5 μm, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−8 S / cm to 5×10−2 S / cm at room temperature and the protecting polymer layer contains a polymer selected from poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), polypropylene oxide (PPO), poly(acrylonitrile) (PAN), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVdF), poly bis-methoxy ethoxyethoxide-phosphazene, polyvinyl chloride, poly(vinylidene chloride), polydimethylsiloxane, poly(vinylidene fluoride)-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP), polyethylene glycol (PEG), a PEG derivative, polyethylene glycol methyl ether, polyethylene glycol dimethyl ether, a sulfonated polymer, or a combination thereof.

An elastic laminate fabric useful for applications including apparel, sanitary products, and the like has an elastic vinylidene isoprene polymer film sandwiched between two outer non-woven layers. The laminate elastic fabric has CD elongation of at least 120%, and has recovery of at least 85% after several cycles of 100% elongation. A method of making the non-woven elastic laminate fabric includes extrusion coating a non-woven web having CD elongation of at least 120% with a vinylidene isoprene polymer film, and then thermocalendaring a second non-woven layer having a CD elongation of at least 120% to the exposed film surface. The mode of thermocalendering includes the use of an engraved calender roll having a discontinuous roll pattern and a land area no greater than 15%.

A process for making a poly alpha-olefin (PAO) having a relatively high vinylidene content (or combined vinylidene and tri-substituted vinylene content) and a relatively low vinyl and / or di-substituted vinylene content, as well as a relatively low molecular weight. The process includes: contacting a feed containing a C2-C32 alpha-olefin with a catalyst system comprising activator and a bis-cyclopentadienyl metallocene compound, typically a cyclopentadienyl-benzindenyl group 4 transition metal compound.

Disclosed is a laminar shaped article comprising a heterogeneous blend of (a) a composition comprising a vinyl halide or vinylidene halide polymer and optionally an ethylene copolymer containing carboxyl and / or carbon monoxide moieties, and (b) a polyolefin functionalized with a comonomer selected from the group consisting of maleic anhydride, maleic acid diesters, maleic acid monoesters, itaconic anhydride, itaconic acid diesters, itaconic acid monoesters, fumaric acid diesters, fumaric acid monoesters, or combinations thereof as a compatibilizer; and (c) a polyamide wherein the polyamide is present in the vinyl halide or vinylidene halide polymer as a multitude of overlapping layers.

Disclosed is a mass polymerized rubber-modified monovinylidene aromatic copolymer composition with an excellent balance of aesthetic, physical and mechanical properties, in particular good impact with low consistent gloss across an injection molded textured part, and a method for preparing such a composition.

A heat-resistant cured product is efficiently produced by obtaining a semi-cured product where a curable resin composition containing a (meth)acrylate monomer, a non-conjugated vinylidene group-containing compound and a thermal radical-polymerization initiator is processed by at least one of photoirradiation and heating to give a semi-cured product having a complex viscosity of from 105 to 108 mPa·s at 25° C. and at a frequency of 10 Hz; and putting the semi-cured product in a forming die for pressure formation therein, and heating it therein for thermal polymerization to give a cured product.

The invention discloses a two-dimensional conjugated dibenzofuran conjugated polymer photoelectric material and a preparation method and application thereof. The polymer has a structural formula as shown in formula I, wherein A1, A2, R1 and R2 independently represent any one of the following groups: hydrogen, C1-C30 alkyl group, C1-C30 alkoxy group, cyan group, nitro group, ester group, aryl group, aralkyl group, halogen, alkylogen group, heteralkyl group, alkenyl group, and aryl group substituted by a substituent of a single bond, a double bond, a triple bond or combination thereof; Ar1, Ar2 and Ar independently represent any one of the following unsubstituted groups or groups containing a substituent: vinylidene group, ethynylene group, single ring arylene group, double ring arylene group, arylene group containing at least three rings, single ring heteroarylene group, double ring heteroarylene group, and conjugated units of heteroarylene group containing at least three rings, and n is a natural number between 5 and 500. The polymer material disclosed by the invention can be applied in the photoelectric field such as organic solar batteries and the high-mobility field effect tube field. (Formula I).

This invention relates to a luminescent lanthanide chelate comprising a lanthanide ion and a chelating ligand of formula (I) whereinR1 is selected from the group consisting H, —COOH, —COO−, —CH2COOH and —CH2COO−; G1 is a group consisting of one or two moieties each moiety being selected from the group consisting of ethynediyl, ethenylene, phenylene, biphenylene, naphthylene, pyridylene, pyrazinylene, pyrimidinylene, pyridazinylene, furylene, thienylene, pyrrolylene, imidazolylene, pyrazolylene, thiazolylene, isothiazolylene, oxazolylene, isoxazolylene, fyrazanylene, 1,2,4-triazol-3,5-ylene and oxadiazolylene; G2 for coupling to a biospecific binding reactant is selected from the group consisting of amino, aminooxy, carbonyl, aldehyde or mercapto groups and activated forms made of them; Z is selected from the group consisting of carboxyalkyl amine, ether, thioether, carbonyl and unsubstituted or substitute methyl (—CR2—) wherein group R2 is selected from the group consisting of H, methyl, ethyl and carboxylalkyl; and the lanthanide ion is europium(III), terbium(III), dysprosiym(III) or samarium(III). This invention further relates to a detectable molecule comprising the lanthanide chelate and the use of the molecule in a method of carrying out a biospecific binding assay.

The present disclosure relates to a novel polyolefin having a terminal double bond and a method of producing the same. A polyolefin having a terminal double bond includes a polyolefin having a terminal double bond at either end and a polyolefin having a terminal double bond at one end, which are thermal degradation products of a polyolefin. An average number of terminal vinylidene groups per molecule is 1.3 to 1.9, a number average molecular weight (Mn) is 50,000 to 5,000,000, and a polydispersity index (Mw / Mn) of a molecular weight distribution is less than or equal to 5.0.

Unsaturated and hydrogenated polyalpha-olefin products can be made with a high selectivity toward vinylidenes and tri-substituted vinylenes combined, a high selectivity toward vinylidenes, and a low selectivity toward 1,2-di-substituted vinylenes by using a catalyst system comprising a metallocene compound having the following structure in the polymerization reaction:

It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel compound useful as a constituent of an organic EL element and the use of the compound permits the realization of a highly practical organic EL element whose driving voltage is substantially low and which has a low leakage current. Accordingly, the present invention herein provides a fluoranthene compound represented by the following general formula (1): A-L-B  (1) wherein A and B each represent a monovalent group having a fluoranthene structure represented by the following general formula (2), provided that A is linked to the group L present in the general formula (1), at the carbon atom selected from those specified by the numerical values of 7 to 10 appearing in Formula (2) and that B is linked to the group L present in Formula (1), at the carbon atom selected from those specified by the numerical values of 1 to 6 appearing in Formula (2): wherein L is a member selected from the group consisting of a single bond, substituted or unsubstituted arylene groups each having 6 to 40 carbon atoms, divalent groups derived from substituted or unsubstituted arylamines each having 6 to 40 carbon atoms, divalent groups derived from substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic rings each having 3 to 40 carbon atoms and substituted or unsubstituted ethenylene groups.

Provided are a highly-pure, terminal-unsaturated olefin polymer which is produced through homopolymerization or copolymerization of one or more α-olefins having from 3 to 28 carbon atoms, or copolymerization of at least one α-olefin having from 3 to 28 carbon atoms and ethylene, in the presence of a catalyst, and which satisfies the following (1) to (4); and a method of efficiently producing the olefin polymer having a high degree of terminal unsaturation degree and containing little catalyst residue.(1) The content of the transition metal derived from the catalyst is at most 10 ppm by mass, the content of aluminium is at most 300 ppm by mass, and the content of boron is at most 10 ppm by mass;(2) The polymer has from 0.5 to 1.0 vinylidene group / molecule as the terminal unsaturated group;(3) The polymer has an intrinsic viscosity [η], as measured in decalin at 135° C., of from 0.01 to 2.5 dl / g;(4) The polymer has a molecular weight distribution (Mw / Mn) of at most 4.

A process for the preparation of oligomeric poly alpha-olefins includes oligomerizing low molecular weight PAO oligomer in the presence of a Lewis acid catalyst such as promoted aluminum trichloride or boron trifluoride under oligomerization conditions. The low molecular weight PAO oligomers used as a feed or feed component of the present process are the light olefinic by-product fractions including the dimers and light fractions from the metallocene-catalyzed PAO oligomerization process which are characterized by a molecular weight of 150 to 600 and a terminal olefin (vinylidene) content of at least 25%.

Monomers corresponding to the formula Z2C=CWX(CY2)nCN, in which X represents an atom of oxygen or no atom, Z and Y represent an atom of hydrogen or fluorine, W represents an atom of hydrogen or fluorine or a CF3 group and n is a natural integer between 0 and 10 inclusively. These monomers enable by means of novel copolymerization methods to prepare fluorosulphonated nitrite elastomers having very low glass transition temperatures (Tg).