Abstract:
Porous beads which are substantially spherical ones made of an aromatic polyether ketone resin and have an average particle diameter of 50 to 5,000 mu m and a porosity of 40 to 99%. The process is characterized by comprising: mixing an aromatic polyether ketone resin with a solvent for the resin with heating to obtain a resin solution; dispersing the resin solution into a liquid dispersion medium which is a nonsolvent for the resin and is immiscible with the solvent to obtain a dispersion in which the resin solution is present as dispersed droplets; cooling the dispersion while maintaining the dispersed state of the resin solution to thereby solidify the resin contained in the resin solution; and separating the solidified resin from the mixture of the solvent and the dispersion medium to obtain substantially spherical porous beads made of the aromatic polyether ketone resin.
Abstract:
Porous films each having a structure consisting of separated microphases and a light transmittance at 400 nm of at least 30 % are obtained by the dry phase transition method comprising drying a coating film of a dope containing a polymer, a good solvent for the polymer and a poor solvent for the polymer having a boiling point higher than that of the good polymer. Examples of the above polymer include cellulose derivatives, vinyl polymers such as acrylonitrile polymers and (meth)acrylate polymers, and polysulfone polymers. The films have a void content of from 10 to 60 %, an average pore size of from about 0.002 to about 0.35 mu m, and a maximum pore size of not more than 0.4 mu m. These films are excellent in transparency and can be obtained in high yields.
Abstract:
A separator of a battery wherein an organic electrolyte is used, which is made of a microporous film having a matrix constituted of a polyethylene having such a molecular weight distribution that a portion having a molecular weight of 1,000,000 or above accounts for 10 wt.% or above and a portion having a molecular weight of 100,000 or less accounts for 5 wt.% or above and a polypropylene having a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 to 1,000,000 in an amount of 5 to 45 wt.% of the total amount of polyethylene and polypropylene. The microporous film has a thickness of 10 to 500 νm, a porosity of 40 to 85 % and a maximum pore diameter of 0.05 to 5 νm. This battery separator can be readily produced by extrusion-molding a mixture of the polyethylene having the above-specified molecular weight distribution, the polypropylene having the above-specified weight-average molecular weight, an organic liquid and fine inorganic powder to form a film, and then extracting the organic liquid and the inorganic powder from the film. It has not only excellent stability but also excellent chemical resistance, mechanical strength and ion permeability, and is extremely useful as the separators of not only a lithium cell but also other primary and secondary cells wherein an organic electrolyte is used.