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US 8,048,938 B2Granted
Reflective film for thermal control
AssigneeNeXolve Corporation
InventorsGarrett Poe, Brandon Farmer
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Abstract
A reflective film includes a polymeric layer and a reflective component. The polymeric layer includes a polyimide polymer, where the polyimide polymer has a backbone with at least one non-terminal phenyl group. A linkage is connected to the non-terminal phenyl group, where the linkage can be an amide linkage or an ester linkage. An oligomeric silsesquioxane compound is connected to the linkage through an organic substituent, where the oligomeric silsesquioxane is not incorporated into the polymer backbone.
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A method for supplying thermal control components comprising:
- (a) preparing a reflective film having a front side, an emissivity and an absorptivity, where the emissivity is greater than the absorptivity from the front side, where the reflective film includes a polymeric layer, and where the polymeric layer includes a polyimide polymer produced by:
- (i) reacting at least one acid monomer with at least one diamine monomer to form a polyamic acid backbone, where the monomers are selected such that the polyamic acid backbone includes a non-terminal attachment point;
- (ii) after step (i), imidizing the polyamic acid backbone to form a polyimide polymer backbone;
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- (iii) after step (ii), attaching an oligomeric silsesquioxane (OS) compound to the attachment point on the polyimide polymer backbone, such that the OS compound is connected to the polyimide polymer backbone.
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A reflective film comprising:
- (a) a reflective component;
- (b) a polymeric layer contacting the reflective component, the polymeric layer including a polyimide polymer comprising:
- (b1) a polyimide polymer backbone, where the polymer backbone includes at least one non-terminal phenyl group;
- (b2) a linkage selected from the group consisting of:
- (i) an amide linkage comprising a carbonyl carbon and a linking nitrogen atom, wherein the carbonyl carbon is connected by a single bond to the non-terminal phenyl group in the polymer backbone and the linking nitrogen atom is connected by a single bond to the carbonyl carbon;
- (ii) an ester linkage comprising a carbonyl carbon and a linking oxygen atom, wherein the carbonyl carbon is connected by a single bond to the non-terminal phenyl group in the polymer backbone and the linking oxygen atom is connected by a single bond to the carbonyl carbon;
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- (iii) a combination of the amide linkage and the ester linkage;
- (b3) at least one oligomeric silsesquioxane (OS) compound comprising silicon atoms and oxygen atoms connected together;
- (b4) an organic substituent connected to each silicon atom of the OS compound, wherein at least one organic substituent is connected to the linkage;
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- (c) a front side, a solar absorptivity, and a thermal emissivity, and where the thermal emissivity is greater than the solar absorptivity from the front side.
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A reflective film comprising:
- (a) A reflective component;
- (b) A polymeric layer contacting the reflective component, the polymeric layer including a polyimide polymer having a backbone including at least one unit represented by the following formula:
- where X includes an oligomeric silsesquioxane (OS) compound, and XX is a nitrogen atom with a hydrogen atom attached to the nitrogen atom;
- where YY is selected from the group consisting of the compounds represented by the following formulas:
- and where ZZ is selected from the group consisting of a direct bond, —O—, —S—, —SO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —CF2—, —C(CH3)2—, —(CF3)2—, —(CH2)n—, —(CH2CHCH3O)n—, —((CH2)4O)n—, —(Si(CH3)2O)n—, —(SiH(CH3)O)n—, —(SiH(C6H5)O)n—, and —(Si(C6H5)2O)n—, and where WW is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and a compound represented by one of the following formulas:
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