Polymers with high internal free volume
First Claim
1. A composition comprising:
- a ladder polymer or oligomer comprising an iptycene.
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Abstract
Shape-persistent organic materials, including polymers, with large degrees of interior free volume are described, along with behaviors and phenomena enabled by their unique properties. One class of such a material is built up from triptycene base moieties wherein three benzene rings are bridged together about a [2.2.2] tricyclic ring system. These units can be assembled into discreet molecules and polymers. These materials and/or formulations thereof with liquid crystals or polymers are useful for the complexation of chemicals and/or polymers; they have very low dielectric constants for use as coatings in dielectric circuits, they provide additional ordering mechanisms in liquid crystals, and they display unusual mechanical responses when subjected to electrochemical, chemical, or mechanical stimuli.
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45 Claims
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1. A composition comprising:
a ladder polymer or oligomer comprising an iptycene. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30)
- 2. A composition comprising an iptycene, having a molecular weight in excess of 2000 daltons, comprising a shape persistent molecule containing bridgehead atoms, with molecular structures radiating from the bridgehead atoms in three directions and extending outwardly therefrom such that each defines a van der Waals contact of furthest point from the bridgehead atoms of no less than 3.5 Å
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31. A composition comprising a first component comprising a first, porous, shape persistent polymeric component and a second polymeric component forming an interpenetrating network permeating the pores of the first polymeric component.
- 32. A composition as in claim 32 wherein the second component is an elastomer.
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35. A device comprising:
a chromophore comprising an iptycene, the device constructed and arranged to be capable of moving the chromophore from a first orientation to a second orientation upon application to the chromophore of a source of external energy. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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