Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a polymer solid electrolyte which has satisfactory transparency, conductivity and mechanical characteristics and which can be made to possess into an easy aspect for an electrochromic device by incorporating a polymer binder, filler, conductive salt, plasticizer to convert ions into a solvent, and other additives as necessary, and specifying each of the transmittance for light, conductivity, and glass transition temperature. SOLUTION: This electrolyte contains a polymer binder, filler having 1 nm to 20 nm primary grain size, conductive salt, plasticizer to convert ions into a solvent and other selective additives and auxiliary agents, and has higher than 80% transmittance for light, higher than 10-6 S/cm conductivity at 20 deg.C and lower than -30 deg.C glass transition temperature Tg. As for the polymer binder, any polymer having proper transparency which can be subjected to thermoplastic treatment can be used, and a thermoplastic resin having higher than 80% trasmittance for light in the UV/VIS region is especially suitable. The filler is preferably an inorganic filler, having primary grain size in the range of 1 nm to 300 nm.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a polymer composition in which at least 1) a polymerization of a mixture comprised of a) from 60 to 99.999 wt. % styrene or a styrene derivative of general formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3 are each independent of one another, represent hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and denote n 1 or 2 or a mixture of two or more thereof; b) 0 to 40 wt. % of a C1-C12 alkyl ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid, acrylonitrile or methacrylonitrile, acrylamide or methacrylamide which can be substituted on the amide nitrogen by one or two C1-C4 alkyl groups, maleinic acid anhydride or maleinic acid imide, which can be substituted on the imide nitrogen by one C1-C4 alkyl group or a mixture thereof; and c) 0 to 20 wt. % of one or more hydroxy containing acrylate or methacrylate derivatives; d) 0.001 to 20 wt. % of a monomer comprising two or more radical polymerizable functional groups as a cross-linker to obtain the prepolymer A, whereby, when the monomer component (c) is absent, hydroxyl groups in A are incorporated by using regulators containing hydroxyl groups. 2) A polycondensation of a mixture is carried out in which said mixture is comprised of alpha ) 5 to 95 wt. % of the prepolymer A, beta ) 0 to 95 wt. % of one polyol, one polyester or one polamide or a mixture thereof, and gamma ) 5 to 95 wt. % of at least one aliphatic or aromatic carboxylic acid with at least two carboxylic groups or esters of C1-C20 hydrocarbon alcohols in the molecule or at least one anhydride or a mixture thereof.